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To: Darkwolf377
"Seems Mars has always stolen the thunder from Venus in the cultural imagination"

I've always thought Venus was a better candidate for terraforming because of the thick atmosphere. If we could engineer some microbes and plants to start trapping toxic substances in the atmosphere, we could start making changes that could eventually result in the planet being habitable.

11 posted on 07/02/2006 3:00:00 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
That's a good point---more to work with.

Let's call Dr. Gregory Benford and see if he can get this going...

12 posted on 07/02/2006 3:09:39 AM PDT by Darkwolf377
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