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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Many years ago, I read an article about a plan to terraform Venus using some sort of bacteria or algae or something. Apparently this organism likes to eat the stuff that's currently in Venus' atmosphere and then it belts out the waste as something that doesn't trap heat as much. I don't remember the details, but either it spit out oxygen, or you do another phase with a different organism that takes in CO and spits out O2. The author was arguing that you could terraform Venus pretty inexpensively by dumping some of this stuff into the upper atmosphere and then waiting a hundred years. I was intrigued.
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Interesting. I've never heard of this. I'll have to do some digging and see what I can find on this. Of course, whatever lives there has to be able to survive at like 900 degrees Fahrenheit, so it'll have to be some really resilient (probably bio-engineered) bacteria!