Sci-Fi World

So today I can't seem to write anything right on my solar storm story. It all seems to be off in some way. Funny.

So instead I am doing a blog post about my next story. I am not going to talk to you about the plot or the characters at this moment. I am wanting to talk to you about my world that I have been creating and the techniques that I have used to create them.

In the broad generalization my story exists in this universe. This isn't an alternate dimension story. It exists almost five hundred years in the future.

So the question comes up, how far could we have gotten in 500 years of technological advancements?

In the 1950's, they thought that we would have rocket packs and flying cars today. Now. Where are they? The reality is that we have advanced astronomically in other areas.

But back to my question. How far can we go in 500 years? Would Captain James T. Kirk be a norm in the future?

The answer is no. There is no warp speed. No weaponized lasers, phasers, masers or any kind of sers. There is no travel faster than light speed. In this future, we can't get anywhere close to it.

Light speed is 1,080,000,000 km an hour. In the future, the fastest that we can travel is 450,000 km an hour. That is from here to Mars in 7 days when the two planets are at there closest.

Now before I go into technical details over the fundamental properties of space travel in this future, what about the planets?

If we can't go faster than the speed of light, then we can't get anywhere. There is no finding an uncharted world to explore and exploit.

Hmm... But there are lots of places to go and see here in the solar system. The gas giants have moons to explore, there's Mars. Venus. The moon.

So let's start with Mars. What will Mars look like in 500 years. Is it still red? I'd say no. There is already talk about what it would take to make the red planet green and blue. So how do I do it?

The answer can only be understood if we look at the problem with Mars. We all know that there is water on Mars. And that that water was liquid in sometime in the past. What happened?

Most of the atmosphere was blown away from the surface because it has no magnetosphere. So besides the fact that it has little atmosphere and no magnetosphere, what else is wrong with the planet?

Understanding those reasons is what creating alternate future books so entertaining to me.

Mars is a cold planet. It's surface temperature is about -63 degrees Celsius. Too cold to harbor life. So that's problem one. The planet is too cold. Why? Very little atmosphere to hold in the heat.

What most people forget to think about is that the solar system is just that. A system. They think about Mars and focus only on Mars. They think of only how do I get stuff from Earth to Mars to fix Mars.

What about Venus?

Venus, like Earth and Mars, lies on the solar systems habitable zone. But Venus has no life either. But it has an atmosphere. A densely thick atmosphere 93 times as heavy as Earths made up of mainly Carbon Dioxide.

Wait a second... Carbon Dioxide. Isn't that the substance that our cars keep pumping into our atmosphere that is causing global warming?

Why not pump some Carbon Dioxide from Venus and put it on Mars where it is needed. Heat the planet up into a temperature that will potentially sustain life.

Now. I know what you are thinking. Easy idea. But how could that happen? The technology required is hard to think of.

But this is fiction and I have freedom to think up crazy sounding things as long as the idea around the technology existing is sound. So how can these future people use the atmosphere from Venus, a plant very close to Earth's size, heat up Mars.

The atmospheric pressure on Venus is 93 times the size of Earth and the temperature is 460 degrees Celsius. No one is capable of living on the surface of Venus.

Not even in a bubble.
With lot's of air conditioning.

But, the surface temperature and atmospheric pressure is earth-like at about 50km's above the surface. Why not build floating cities on Venus? Why not have these cities being held up by hydrogen and giant fans.

Can the Star Wars fans all say Cloud City?

The airmovers blow the atmosphere through filters which would filter out the carbon and leave the oxygen. The hydrogen will be let out eventually when the temperature drops to react with more carbon dioxide to create water.

This captured Carbon would be then shipped to Mars where it would be converted into something burnable and burned. The carbon would then enter the atmosphere as Carbon Dioxide by harassing water asteroids from the belt and melting them by the foundry.

This extra Carbon Dioxide would raise the temperature of Mars. Once it gets past a certain point, it will naturally melt the water and carbon dioxide in the soil, further heating up the planet. Once the planet gets to a certain point, algae and weed type plants are introduced turning the thick carbon dioxide atmosphere into a better one comprised of Oxygen and Nitrogen. Next thing you know, you have plants and animals and water on Mars.

Now what about Venus? Venus, in this future, is not a completely successful terraform. It takes them 250 years to terraform Mars into something more Earth-like. At the current year in this future, Venus is still not completely terraformed.

Is it liveable. Yes. Is it comfortable. No.

Venus goes from 93 times atmospheric pressure to about 2.5 atmospheres. The temperature drops from 460 degrees Celsius to about 50 degrees Celsius. Atmospheric conditions of under 1.5 is considered safe to live in, while a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius is unbearable to live in.

So that means that the people living on Venus would still have to wear some type of suit at all times and all of there homes would have to be sealed units with decompression chambers.

Unfortunately, I have run out of time to keep talking about my world.

Until next time.