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1 Prolog: The Big Guns of Kugluktuk 1
Summer, the Year 2100 1
Notes and References 4
2 Introduction 7
What's in a Word? 9
Moving Forward 11
The Anthropocene 12
Future Worlds, Future Homes 13
Economics 17
Notes and References 18
3 Life in the Solar System, and Beyond 19
Mars: The Once and Future Abode of Life? 21
Life Express 26
The Miller-Urey Experiment 28
Panspermia: The Bigger Picture 31
Life and Death Clouds 35
Vignette A: What Is Life? 37
The Rights of Microbes 40
Notes and References 41
4 The Limits of the World 45
Home on the Range: A Brief History of the Solar System 46
The Blue Marble 53
Breathing Room 56
A Magnetic Shield 59
Humanity's Footprint 61
We, the Tikopia 67
The Aging Sun 68
Back to the Present 74
Vignette B: The Viking Landers 75
Notes and References 79
5 In the Right Place at the Right Time 81
Planetary Temperatures 82
Atmospheric Temperature and Pressure 88
Phase Diagram of Water 93
The Habitable Zone 96
Atmospheric Retention 97
The Greenhouse Effect 101
The Tail Wagging the Dog 103
Feedback Cycles and Stability 105
The End of the Biosphere 110
The Formation of Terrestrial Planets 112
Super-Earths 118
Vignette C: Kepler's Somnium 119
Notes and References 122
6 The Terraforming of Mars 125
The Measure of Mars 128
Whither the Water? 136
The Opening Salvo 138
Altered States: The Means of Terraforming Mars 142
Increased CO2 Abundance 146
The CO2 Runaway 147
Super-Greenhouse Gases 151
Albedo Change and Increased Insolation 154
The Phases of New Mars 157
The Times of Their Lives 162
Worldhouse 165
Near-Term Developments165
Vignette D: Daisy World 167
Notes and References 171
7 The Terraforming of Venus 175
The Moist Greenhouse Effect 182
Cloud Life 183
Perelandra Remade 185
Atmospheric Blow-off, Cooling, and Mining 186
Roman Blinds, Spin Up, and Spin Apart 191
Back to Basics 194
Getting CO2 Stoned 196
A Cold New Dawn 197
Surface Turnover 199
Flying High 201
A Distant Dawn 203
Vignette E: Back to the Moon 203
Notes and References 206
8 An Abundance of Habitats 211
The Moon's a Balloon 212
Hot-Footed Hermes 216
A Fragmented Neighborhood 220
Life on a Dwarf Planet: Ceres World 222
Living in the Clouds 225
Supramundane Planets and Shell Worlds 226
O'Neill Colonies and Orbiting Cities 229
The Coming of a Second Sun 230
Earth Shift and a Synthestic Sun 235
Dyson Spheres and Jupiter 236
The Galilean Moons: Food for Thought 238
The Deeper, Darker, Colder Solar System 242
The Pull of More Distant Horizons 245
Other Worlds Abound 246
Future Prospects 248
Habitable Exoplanets and Biomarkers 251
Vignette F: The Mysterious Titius-Bode Law 254
Notes and References 257
Epilogue 261
Internet Resources 265
Glossary of Technical Terms 269
Appendices 273
A Blackbody Radiators 273
B Accounting for Greenhouse Gases 275
C A Terraforming Simulator Model for Mars 277
D Population Growth and Lily World 281
Index 289
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Guy Guy
reviewed Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds on July 23, 2015
Terraforming
It starts out a little slow but it's not a bad primer on the subject for those who have no background in it. A child's first guide on terraforming.
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