Quote from: picollo on October 28, 2016, 06:28:17 AMQuoteHow about a way to terraform Mars? Genetical engineered plants and stuff to slowly turn Mars at least survivable to humans without suits (would take a REALLY long time... 20+ years at least)Seriously? 1-20 ppl colony terraforming Mars in 20 years?
Even our whole civilization can't do that- it took us like 150 years (since industrial revolution) to increase temperature by around 1 degree. And we are working really hard on this.
Not this scale. It could be done in Civilisation like game, but not in survival sim
Quote from: Canute on October 28, 2016, 07:26:14 AMOh I know that it will take a crazy amount of time in RL, I was only spitballing a value that one could reach (and not lose interrest) ingame.
20+ years arn't realstic except you got some godlike mashines around.
But yes gen eng. plants will work, and they are the cheapest way to do the first step of a terraform.
But once these plants generate a human breathable, you have the next problem, these plants ! :-)
If you want a fast terraform, these plants need to grow fast, that fast that they prolly will eliminate any other kind of flora and possible fauna.
And maybe these plants mutate and generate a plantelike inteligence and will fight any intruder :-)
I really want those gen-tech plants now and the results they will bring. First one would have to research/prepare them (maybe also add a "killswitch", a gene that could get targeted via bacteria/whathaveyou), then get rid of them/change them that they stop spreading like crazy (activate "killswitch"/animals/some other way) and ofc while managing all the problems that may appear.
"Hmmm the plants mutated too much, the bacteria aren't working..."
"How about we modify some bugs to eat the plants?"
"GREAT IDEA! Let's do it!"
1 year later
"Hmmm now we have problems with the plants AND the bugs..."
"At least it can't get worse th..."
"GUYS! We just found a mutated plant/bug hybrid! It seems the bacteria also influenced the bugs and..."
"OH MY GOD! I just got worse! But it can't get worse than THAT!"
"Ermmm it seems those hybrids are intelligent, rapidly multiplying... and don't like us... They are comming for the colony!"
"F...!"