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Ajaks · 2011-10-22, 10:40 PM

I accept full responsibilty. I blew up the ship. The T.R. scum were out of control. For Liberty. For Freedom. For Life. NC.
Ajaks

Captain B · 2011-10-23, 12:48 AM

Well played, Ajaks.

Also, PSU, what's with the nerd rage over the terraforming thing? I am disappoint. The irony is that it's coming from VS players who will write off anything Vanu does as "supra tecknologee" but several hundred years in the future, we can't unscrew our heads from our asses to figure out how to terraform a floating rock.

Biggest piece of science fiction here? That we'll actually have enough resources in a few hundred years to even consider leaving the planet. Last I checked, NASA was going the way of the do-do and the rest of the planet is rather disinterested in any further manned space exploration at the government level.

So pipe down, space elves.

Marth Koopa · 2011-10-23, 12:50 AM

Maybe they made Phobos bigger?

Traak · 2011-10-23, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by Marth Koopa

Maybe they made Phobos bigger?

The Sum of All Phobos.

Grimster · 2011-10-23, 02:46 AM

I also have a hard time why you would want to nitpick about Phobos.

There is not many moons in the solar system that would make sense to terraform in the first place. The moon might have the right distance to the sun being the satellite of earth but it has too low gravity to sustain a atmosphere enough for humans.

Ganymede which is the largest moon might have the possibility but here is instead the distance from the sun a issue.

Basically Mars, Venus and Earth are the only planets present in what is considered to be the habitable zone. So if you look at that you only have three moons even present in the habitable zone with one of them being Phobos.

FastAndFree · 2011-10-23, 05:11 AM

Originally Posted by Grimster

I also have a hard time why you would want to nitpick about Phobos.

Because they won't show us the Dyson and we are BORED WITH NOTHING TO DO!

Espion · 2011-10-23, 05:11 AM

Thankfully this is scifi, otherwise I might have to care about tiny details like Phobos

basti · 2011-10-23, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by Grimster

I also have a hard time why you would want to nitpick about Phobos.

There is not many moons in the solar system that would make sense to terraform in the first place. The moon might have the right distance to the sun being the satellite of earth but it has too low gravity to sustain a atmosphere enough for humans.

Ganymede which is the largest moon might have the possibility but here is instead the distance from the sun a issue.

Basically Mars, Venus and Earth are the only planets present in what is considered to be the habitable zone. So if you look at that you only have three moons even present in the habitable zone with one of them being Phobos.

If we want to go for that direction: You cant terraform ANY moon that is within the habitable zone of SOL. You need a Magnetosphere for that, or you end up seeing all the nice stuff you put on the moon get cancer. Yes, even plants. You could try our moon, but you may end up getting a nasty sun, not to mention seeing most of the plants die every now and then.

Terraforming mars is most likley impossible. Mars lost its Magnetosphere 500 mil years ago.

Oh, and Cap: If you havent noticed: I S S

And i just found this:

Now get out and leave us nerds alone! :P

Traak · 2011-10-23, 07:30 AM

I say we Auraxiform Earth. Bring on the nanites!

Xyntech · 2011-10-23, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Traak

I say we Auraxiform Earth. Bring on the nanites!

In the name of Vanu!

Yeah, the NC and TR have no problem with alien technology when it allows them to be immortal or allows them to travel across the universe in the blink of your eye. Then you stop for a second and try and listen to what these amazing aliens have to say and suddenly your some sort of "crazy cultists."

Hamma · 2011-10-23, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by robocpf1

Guys, stop being nitpicky, we have hovertanks and we can't die and there are aliens.

Science. Fiction. Stop it now. Phobos was terraformed using the patented Nanite-Technologies "Acme Terraforming Kit", you can buy one at your neighborhood N-Mart, it's really not that difficult to comprehend.

Emphasis mine

Now it is just getting silly.

Grimster · 2011-10-23, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by basti

If we want to go for that direction: You cant terraform ANY moon that is within the habitable zone of SOL. You need a Magnetosphere for that, or you end up seeing all the nice stuff you put on the moon get cancer. Yes, even plants. You could try our moon, but you may end up getting a nasty sun, not to mention seeing most of the plants die every now and then.

Terraforming mars is most likley impossible. Mars lost its Magnetosphere 500 mil years ago.

Oh, and Cap: If you havent noticed: I S S

And i just found this:

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Now get out and leave us nerds alone! :P

I read my post again three times but I still fail to see where I said "moon in habitable zone = possible to terraform".

I skipped the whole Magnetosphere part because i didn't want to bore everyone with astronomy nerd stuff.

The point I wanted to get across is that it doesn't matter which moon he would have picked for the story because they all are more or less impossible to terraform and thus I figured you were ranting about something that wasn't even necesseary to rant about in the first place.

FastAndFree · 2011-10-23, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by Traak

I say we Auraxiform Earth. Bring on the nanites!

Oh but if you paid attention, in this reimagination we alredy had nanites back on Earth

Trolltaxi · 2011-10-23, 03:43 PM

If it is Phobos they have terraformed, then be it Phobos!

Stop calling it sci-fi, call it fantasy and you are on spot! It is not spaceships and plasma rifles that make a story sci-fi. Star Wars is also a fantasy, not a sci-fi. Warhammer 40K is fantasy. Star Trek is - closer to sci-fi, but still fantasy. Asimov wrote sci-fi, but I doubt anyone would find pleasure playing an MMO as a robot that is bound to the Three Laws of Robotics...

If you read every "spaceship" as "magic carpet", every "plasma shot" a "swing of the mighty sword", every "technobabble" as "magick formulas" you will find most sci-fi to become fantasy. (and on a sidenote, if you read every Neytiri as Pocahontas, you will have... well, Pocahontas)

Raymac · 2011-10-23, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by basti

If we want to go for that direction: You cant terraform ANY moon that is within the habitable zone of SOL. You need a Magnetosphere for that, or you end up seeing all the nice stuff you put on the moon get cancer. Yes, even plants. You could try our moon, but you may end up getting a nasty sun, not to mention seeing most of the plants die every now and then.

Terraforming mars is most likley impossible. Mars lost its Magnetosphere 500 mil years ago.
Now get out and leave us nerds alone! :P

Originally Posted by basti

All that stuff is possible in Sci-FI. Yes, even terraforming Phobos.

What happened to the Basti from yesterday? Bring him back. You can't concede that terraforming Phobos "is possible" one day, and then argue against it the next. That's 1 step forwards, 2 steps backwards.