Quote:Hell, they don't have to change vector or anything, just accelerate the existing rotation. Sure, it's retrograde, but that just adds to the rustic charm.
Solving this one is actually the ultimate purpose of the Castle network, as I see it. They generate about four to five times as much energy as they use - and store it. When they're all complete and fully charged, they'll activate in unison and wrap the entire damn planet in a drive field. They won't actually take it anywhere, just tweak its relative motion to something more... useful.
Quote:Oh sure. It's a fair bet that eventually somebody working on Limit Break technology is going to come up with a widget that will work more or less like that. That guy will probably get a statue built in his honor in Crystal Tokyo.
Given all the other wierd shit Handwavium's done, in their position I'd be perfectly willing to bet on my ability to find or create this by the time I ran out of other things to work on.
Quote:Venus isn't creating water for export; Venus is creating water for Venus, to keep the airborne biosphere alive for another month while they keep working on alternate solutions. If they stop that, the biosphere dies and the whole project takes four steps backward.
Earth will pay good money for complex organics. Earth won't pay for water. Earth has water coming out its ear-holes already. Running and expanding a terraforming project takes good money.
Trading soley with Fenspace will keep the money coming in without having to throw expensive imports right back out the window. Hydrogen from Jupiter to Venus; LOX, LN2 and graphite from Venus to Luna and Mars; manufactured goods from Luna and Mars to Jupiter. Y'know, the basic triangle trade. It's not mad money, but it keeps the cash and more importantly the material resources needed for terraforming coming.
Maybe it's just the Fan Panther side rearing its ugly head, but to me using precious Jovian hydrogen needed to keep the ecosystem running to make organics for export to Earth says "if they do this, then they'll fail, and they'll deserve to fail."---
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