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Published: 2010-07-05 19:23:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 6849; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 116
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Evening all.This is not part of my continuing Golden Age series, but it's a project I've wanted to do for a while, and given my renewed involvement with Celestia I decided to build it! This is the nearside of the Moon, terraformed under a type of project called "worldhousing". It involves building a network of domes across the entire surface, and creating a habitable atmosphere beneath to terraform the world, useful in situations where the world in question has too low gravity or is otherwise unsuitable for terraforming.
In the top-left is the Moon covered with it's hexagonal worldhouse, clouds swirling beneath, with the clouds and worldhouse removed in the bottom-right for a better look at the grassy surface, as it would look were it able to be exposed to space.
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This is indeed a good choice in terraforming the moon. This way it is not necessary to continuously reset the atmosphere. Although I think that the future tenology can be advanced to the point of not being necessary the worldhouse.
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Hmm, I wonder if it would also be practical to build one dome over the entire moon above it's atmosphere, and make the dome be nearly completely transparent to the point from outer space you don't even see the dome.
The dome would be situated above the Moon's atmosphere and would rotate around the moon.
It be like a small-scale invisible Dyson sphere.
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I've done the same thing in my TerraCluster universe, only i called it caeliforming
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You've got some nice stuff in your gallery, I'll have to take a look 
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How true, altho in my universe we've taken down the old domes and put up one seamless one supported by massive pillars.
Thanks for the watch, by the way
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What a GREAT Idea man 
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Thanks, you and me both
If you're looking for crazy terraforming ideas, you should look into the ideas of turning Jupiter into a small sun to bring it's moon's to life for a few tens of thousands of years 
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That is CRAZY! XD But such an interesting idea, yeah I will look into that, but that would no doubt require advanced alien help no doubt lol... Respect
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Amazing... purely amazing! Do you have a high-res version of this one?
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'Fraid not 
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Ouch. Are you sure about that?
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Well, even this may be of use. Requesting permission to use it...
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Wow! Just wow! It would be cool to have this in the motherlode! (celestiamotherlode.net)
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I love this idea! Like a Dyson sphere for a solid surface.
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Thanks
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Dude I have to say, I like this idea. You could even get it to absorb some of the radiation for electricity.
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The true brilliance of worldhousing is that you could do it anywhere, on any scale - a few kilometres wide of domes on Mars, or surround a whole otherwise-totally-uninhabitable asteroid, or cover the entire surface of the Moon, heh... and indeed, the top surface of every one of those struts which hold up the hexagonal dome sheets could be covered with solar panels
Oh and thanks for the fave ^ ^
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It would very interesting to see how life would adapt to such low gravity on a worldhouse'd asteroid.
Nice work by the way.
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Ta
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Well they don't have the space to try yet. Hopefully inflatable stations will change that.
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Yup, centrifugal gravity would do, for the purposes of finding out the simple ideas of whether plants could grow in MG
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Also, it would be pretty damned cool.
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You guys might like Dyson trees. A bit fanciful, but interesting. [link]
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It's interesting, but my main objection is where they find the growing mass - actual trees gain almost all their growing mass from the CO2 in the air, so it would have to be planted on a very carbonaceous comet...
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I agree, but am also unsure about finding growing mass. It might just have to be added artificially, or perhaps several comets could be linked/lumped together.
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Also called Parraforming or some poeple call it Para-terraforming. I did Mercury this way too.
[link]
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What program did you use to make that? And yes, I just prefer worldhousing for this specific term
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All done in Bryce5. Mercury texture I got from Celestia. I've posted all my terraformed moon maps on my profile, but I didn't include any bump or specularity maps with them.
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Yeah I saw, I faved them ages ago I believe
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