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YNot1989 — The History of Martian Terra-forming Pt. 1
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2023 - Expedition 1: The Mars Corporation launches its first manned mission to Mars.2024 - Humans on Mars: Meridian Base is established in Margaritifer. Bradbury Base is established in lower Tharsis shorly.
2027 - Heinlein Station is established in the Tharsis Territory. The Mars Corporation begin distributing genetically modified bacteria across Mars to generate ozone, oxygen, and heat. Other species are introduced to process the toxic dirt into usable soil.
2030: In-Situ 3D Printers begin building propulsion systems on Ice and Carbon rich asteroids in the Asteroid Belt to send them on the long, eccentric orbit into the Martian atmosphere.
2031: MarsCorp and Venus Group begin building of a series of propulsion systems on the largest asteroids in the belt using In-Situ Printers. Similar efforts are made on Phobos and Deimos to position them in more stable orbits and collide with these other bodies, thus creating larger moons to build a more permanent magnetic field.
2033 - The Green Magnetoshield is placed at Mars L1. The inflatable superconducting coil provides a 2 Tesla Magnetic Field to protect Mars from solar radiation.
2035 - Praxis Group begins construction of the first Space Elevator on Mars using Molecular Compilers originally developed for DNA printing.
2036 - Solar Reflectors arrive at Mars. Named for ancient gods of the Sun and Dawn, these continent sized mirrors begin accelerating the heating of the planet.
2037 - The Gondor Colony is established on Titan to send valuable Nitrogen to Mars. The First seas appear on Mars.
2039 - Huygens Agreement: MarsCorp and Galileo Development enter into a partnership that binds the inner and outer system's colonies under a single market, and ensures Nitrogen from Titan will flow to Mars unabated. MarsCorp begins deploying hosts of genetically modified algae, lichens, fungi, and mosses across the planet to aid in terraforming.
2041 - Vesta and Pollux reach Martian orbit and are heated using the mirrors to a semi-molten state, along with Deimos. All three bodies collide into eachother and fuse into a single mass that takes on a spheroidal shape.
2044 - Several "Cold Pockets" are created on New Deimos using graphene heat sinks to bleed off the intense heat near the surface.
2047 - Mars's expanding seas are stocked with genetically tailored corals as the algae blooms that thrive in the iron rich seas produce a great deal of oxygen. The first hosts of planktonic organisms are stocked into the oceans to keep the algae populations in check.
2051 - Martian surface pressure in Valles Marineris is now high enough for humans to operate without pressure suits.
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In Confracta, 2010s would be a dieselpunk 1930s hellhole for Earth, with Germany's vast colonial empire going to shit and the Internationale and Russians getting uppity again. Central Powers victory utopia goes horribly wrong. Continental War starts in 1914, Britain stays out and betrays Belgium to appease Germany, Germany and Austria win by 1919.
Great War starts in 1938 and lasts until 1948. Another German victory, this time with the Reichspakt aligning with the former Entente powers. Internationale gets smashed. Peace treaty with Russia and the Saratov Pact.
Dieselpunk retrofuturism until the Great Crash of the 2010s.
2nd Great War starts 2018, lasts until 2038. 1940s diselpunk transitions into ENIAD-punk and early atompunk
2051, beginning of a Fallout-like era but more optimistic and with a focus on renewable energy instead of nuclear. Progressive version of the 1950s, atompunk utopia.
2077, buy a new Atomeus nuclear sedan for your New Virginia ranch house! Fallout with Mars being opened October 23rd instead of a nuclear war. USA reborn when the Atlanta and Sacramento governments unite.
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I'm a bit confused by this, still cool, but how did mars' moons become less formless and more spiralical?
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They're far larger than they were before thanks to the collision of several of the larger asteroids in the belt (named in the later phase of terraforming). Larger, more massive objects have more gravity and therefore they pull more of themselves towards a central point, reducing terrain extremes, and thus resulting in a spheroidal shape.
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ah, thanks for telling me that
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Please my Friend. Turkish Union Map, structure Please
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Can Earth destroy Mars if it comes down to it? Please reassure me.
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Ultimately, don't worry about it. Just my ranting. It IS great world-building, no matter what!
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What would happen if someone destroyed the green magnetoshield? Has anybody try it out (like the guardiola foundation)?
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A few pirates have attempted to do so, but Mars has a strong enough atmosphere and ozone layer that the loss of the Magnetoshield would be a temporary inconvenience. They'd have a new one up and running inside of year.
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I’ve been looking through your timeline and it seems that those who had the bigger contribution to the colonial population are by far the Chinese and the Hispanics after all the flood, the war, and the ethnical cleansing. How have these influenced colonies? What has happened with chinese and spanish languages both in space and earth?
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You're ignoring the sizable Indian and Bengali populations which collectively are as large as the Chinese communities. Venus is overwhelmingly the most Hispanic, Mars has barely half as many people of Hispanic decent, and most of them are second and third generation. During the Mass Deportations (not technically ethnic cleansing, but it may as well have been) of the 2080s, most non-citizen Hispanics living in the US relocated to Mexico and later central America (annexed by Mexico). About 1/3rd of those who were up for deportation left for the colonies with their families.
After the Third Mexican War, Hispanic populations largely fled for Venus without coercion beyond the threat of starvation and death by the resulting nuclear winter from the war. However, resettlement of Latin America was designed to promote cultural integration through more diverse populations. As of 2160, Approximately 30% of Latin America's population were not born there. And half of those individuals were residents of the Union during the war.
As a result, the demographics and culture of the Solar System reflect the melting pot ideal of the United States. Mars has largely achieved successful cultural integration, thanks to a large early population and political engineering built into the design of the planet's cities and economic regions. Martian civilization was essentially pre-built int eh 50 years leading up to colonization, and settlement of the planet was crafted to ensure demographic enclaves would not create sectarianism. Additionally, as most Martians immigrated voluntarily, and were typically more forward thinking than most humans on Earth, the planet does not suffer significant lingering loyalties to its people's homelands.
Venus is a slightly more messy story. Its pre-colonization resident population of scientists, engineers, and terraforming techs was relatively small for most of its history due to extreme surface conditions. Its efforts towards planetary harmony were in many ways even more extreme than on Mars thanks to successive technological advances that enabled more aggressive geoscaping. Mountain rangers were built or eroded, river valleys dredged, islands destroyed and continents filled in just to prevent the specter of conflict from reaching the planet. Much like on Mars cities and economic regions were created to promote prosperity and cultural integration, but due to the early panic of the Terran Diaspora Venus still has significant Mexican demographic enclaves. The overwhelming majority of these colonists simply wish to be left alone, while a vocal minority stage demonstrations in support of their mother countries. However, unlike the Confederacy after the First Civil War, these movements do not have the benefit of contiguous geographic identity and are divided internally. It is estimated that these movements will ultimately die out inside of 100 years.
Language has evolved in many ways on and off of Earth. Across the Solar System, English is almost exclusively spoken. The settlement strategy of colonization makes it impractical for native languages to be used, and while some poorer populations in enclaves have developed pidgin languages, the system largely sticks to English, which is almost universally taught on Earth as a secondary language, as it has functionally been the lingua franca of Earth since shortly after the end of the First Russo-American Cold War. On Earth language is more diverse, but English is extremely prevalent, even before the end of the Third Mexican-American War. Japanese has eroded to the point where some in the country were considering adopting English as the country's official language, and Pinyin has long since replaced Han characters as the written language of China. The following languages were considered "Dead" in Europe by the events of the Third Mexican American War:
*Icelandic
*Norwegian
*Finnish
*Swedish
*Danish
*German
*Dutch
*Flemish
*Estonian
*Latvian
*Lithuanian
*Swiss
French has largely eroded as has Castilian Spanish. Slovac and Czech have largely merged in a historical irony, and Polish is predominantly spoken throughout Eastern Europe. Bulgarian is so different from its 21st Century incarnation that it is recognized as a separate language entirely.
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That geoscaping sound pretty awesome, dealing with divisions before they even exist, though the map of venus might be a bit boring without peninsulas or island to prevent regionalization
Apart from the ''swiss language'' ( you’re a rocket scientist not a linguistic, anyway). What do you mean with erode? And how is posssible that languages like german just died out?, it has millions of speakers and hundreds of years of history, people don’t stop talking a language just because
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German died out because English was more prolific, and more useful. The 82% of this generation of Germans who speak English professionally gave rise to a generation that speaks English casually to communicate with foreigners, which is pretty common for a country so deeply invested in trade even after the European Depression. That generation spawned another generation for whom English was even more common for conversations with neighboring peoples (like the Scandinavians). Political leaders encouraged English to be taught earlier and earlier in schools, and young people used it to engage with entertainment items exported from the US more easily. By the time of the Third Mexican War, only the very old still spoke German exclusively, and the young hardly spoke it outside of family. Those that followed that generation had the option to learn German, but largely learned English because that was the language of the European Association and the solar system.
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but the "Praxis" isn't the multinational of Mars Trilogy?
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That's what I meant.
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This is actually pretty great! What did you make this in?
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What are the purpose of those 4 asteroids; Albert, Clarke, Eureka, and Toutatis? Are they counterweight asteroids for space elevators?
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I suppose Toutatis is the one above New Richmond?
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As with the last one, this is fabulous. I will say though, 2051 seems a bit soon for all this.
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Awesome I just read in the news about such a plan with an artificial magnetfield^^ You only need one big in sun direction right? But I love the idea of sun god names a lot **
I think the time frame is a bit short, but we´ll surely manage to do that sooner or later. Now let´s terraform Venus^^
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Yeah, that's what's in the lower left of the map. The solar reflectors are reflecting sunlight to heat the surface of Mars.
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Did you hear about NASA's plant to put magnets in Mars orbit?
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Phobos and Deimos are, like most asteroids, loose rubble piles. Making really big asteroids collide together would destroy those moons, and create horrific Kessler Syndrome. You'd be better off making Pallas and Hygiea moons themselves.
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Awesome, putting an artificial magnetosphere around Mars, very interesting and brilliant
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Very yes. But it seems to me that the dimensions of the New Deimos and New Phobos are incorrectly specified. Their diameter will be much smaller.
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MarsCorp was a merger of SpaceX with the other private space colonies right? When did it begin planning the Mars landing?
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Its more like ULA, than a strait merger. It was formed to coordinate the manned missions currently being planned by SpaceX.
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Oh yeah, in a period of fewer than thirty years from the first Humans on Mars, we'll have the infrastructure on Mars capable of melting its ice caps and producing an artificial magnetic field; just a little over thirty years in the future. I have to say, the U.S. government just doesn't have the foresight to fund the colonization of Mars, nor do space corporations have the backing within such a short time frame.
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You know one thing that makes me laugh
"The Government could have secret technology in Area 51"
No they do not
All that's in Area 51 is testing for experimental aircraft
"Why would you believe the Government"
Because the Government like all old governments wants to keep its power , If the US Government truly wants to continue to exist for an extended period of time they would use any means to achieve that goal including the "secret alien technology in Area 51"
The Fact that the U.S Government has not used any secret technology to subjugate us to there whim tells us that they don't have it
At the moment I think Galactic colonization needs to be a top priority , Earth does not have much room for future generations of mankind and thanks to Mr.Trumps new laws including other reasons the Earth is becoming greatley effected by global warming and pollution which is sure to wipe out mankind.
I think we need to fly beyond our solar system and seek out one of the 800 or more Earthen planets N.A.S.A has found in our galaxy and inhabbit those , NASA will never get the funding it deserves and NASA itself has been working on a Ion propulsion engine for a long time now which they lack the funds to advance further and we need this because earth IS dying
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You act like you saw a ghost
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No. I saw a complete lunatic rant at me.
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I was not ranting at you , nor am I a complete lunatic
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Earth is in for a rough patch but it's not dying it will take more then man to do that.
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We are VERY close
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Not at all actually.
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Then you are a narrow minded idiot
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There is no need for fucking insults.
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