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To: fanfan

But that only leaves you with what you started out with.

Plants need a few basic ingredients to grow, and then magic happens. (Unless ‘Face is tending them.)

They need water, sunlight, and air, plus a few minor chemical ingredients that we call “soil”. (Soil is actually complicated, but let’s not get into anything messy.)

On Venus, that is, afloat on the carbon dioxide ocean of the “water-world” that is Venus, there will be sunlight aplenty, twice as much as on Earth.

There will be air. Venus has nitrogen and other air ingredients, including of course carbon dioxide. What it is short of is water, which is tied up with sulfur in atmospheric sulfuric acid. Nasty stuff.

If you want the water, it’s a tussle! (But there are “ways”.)


704 posted on 05/09/2009 5:00:03 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("Newspapers mold minds" -- and that's how you get Zombies. They have moldy minds.)
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To: NicknamedBob; fanfan; sionnsar; Tax-chick; Dead Corpse; rottndog; ThomasThomas; SandyInSeattle
...(Unless ‘Face is tending them.)...

You've been reading my posts...

706 posted on 05/09/2009 5:02:12 PM PDT by Monkey Face (As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Venus is too hot.
Mars looks good.


729 posted on 05/09/2009 6:06:52 PM PDT by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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