How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)

Why HN readers recommended it

Offered as a readable explainer whenever Venus terraforming or alternatives to Mars colonization come up.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Topic

terraforming venus

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• You might enjoy this video on terraforming Venus, [VIDEO] I think we should consider the whole solar system our galactic ship while making sure to keep the current habitation quarters in top notch shape.

• There is a decent kurzgesagt video explaining what transforming a new planet would look like [VIDEO] Essentially it would be almost infinitely easier to reverse all climate change on earth than to make another planet livable but it is in theory possible.

• There's a good video on this that talks about how a similar technique might be used to terraform Venus over hundreds of years [0] The main physics problem I see is that Langrange points are naturally unstable [1], so the bubbles would need to be …