Is this how Earth-that-was became just that?

POSTED BY: TenthCrewMember
UPDATED: Friday, January 7, 2005 07:48
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UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

Monday, November 1, 2004 1:25 PM

No way!! Now that is funny! :)

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JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, November 4, 2004 10:21 AM

great thread

GROUNDED

Thursday, November 4, 2004 11:32 AM

If they had the technology for terraforming, what exactly was stopping them from fixing Earth?

EMBERS

Thursday, November 4, 2004 12:32 PM

you're right...if it was 'just' global warming they should be able to fix Earth...
I'm guessing it was the destruction of the nuclear power plants (aging plants in need of repairs were further damaged by wide spread earth quakes and high wind storms), causing 100 years of high radiation, that made everything for hundreds of miles too 'hot' to terraform....
or maybe the early attempts at terraforming, attempts that made things worse, that had been performed in the large desert areas on Earth...
they were afraid that the new working terraforming technology would be corrupted with the old failed attempts causing massive failure of the environment....

yeah, that's the ticket!
they DID try to terraform Earth, but it has already had all these failed attempts which caused the new attempts to go bad, so that things just got worse and worse on Earth

that was (may she rest in peace)

JASMOM

Monday, November 8, 2004 2:26 PM

I caught the Richard Wilkins/Mayor reference as well. Very clever! Great histories!

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by embers:
you're right...if it was 'just' global warming they should be able to fix Earth...
I'm guessing it was the destruction of the nuclear power plants (aging plants in need of repairs were further damaged by wide spread earth quakes and high wind storms), causing 100 years of high radiation, that made everything for hundreds of miles too 'hot' to terraform....
or maybe the early attempts at terraforming, attempts that made things worse, that had been performed in the large desert areas on Earth...
they were afraid that the new working terraforming technology would be corrupted with the old failed attempts causing massive failure of the environment....

yeah, that's the ticket!
they DID try to terraform Earth, but it has already had all these failed attempts which caused the new attempts to go bad, so that things just got worse and worse on Earth

that was (may she rest in peace)

Yep, it looks like Earth got messed up real bad
It could be that even terraforming can no longer help planet Earth
Anyways as for Terraforming I've talked a little on this before, and I reckon its Not as if they can wave a magic wand and convert a planet. First perhaps a world must be of reasonable composition, gravity and size. Then they have to spend huge efforts, using great terraforming equipment and ginat terraforming machines to change the chemical composition of a planet and create a poper soil and bring hue ships and equipment that will make a livable atmosphere. Even after all these efforts sometimes they only get dusty, dry, barron and sandy planets...
..terraforming can be a lot like try to stop flooding with our current technology, or trying to make a barron desert landscape into a rich and fertile landscape using our current science..sometimes it works ok and sometimes it doesn't work at all

KURUKAMI

Friday, January 7, 2005 7:48 AM

This is a snippet of something I put together for a fanfic I'm working on. It's a slightly different explanation that the long one above, but to me it makes more sense as to why no-one seems to have ever gone back to Earth system -- not even Jupiter's moons.

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She learned of the expansion of mankind to encompass much of Sol’s planetary system. Of the plague whose origins remained shrouded in mystery – some believed it natural, others thought it was an anonymous corporation's biowarfare weapon, and a few remained certain that it was a nanotechnological agent gone terribly awry – but whose effects and consequences were far too well known. Of the limited, sterilizing nuclear strikes that some nations had surreptitiously attempted to halt the spread of the plague, and how rapidly they had become not-so-limited. Of the panicked flights of refugees that had spread the plague’s effects to many of the system’s outlying colonies, and the Exodus as the people of the nations of Earth-that-Was and Sol’s colonies fled in spacecraft cobbled together from every technological level towards the distant stars that would one day become the core systems of the Alliance.
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