[TML] Environmental domes

[Kirk Bailey]

Why boother? just give the rock gravity and some atmosphere, and it's 
habitable. AIR is not too hard, crack rock and skim a gas giant. Gravity 
depends on tech we don't have YET, but in Traveller we do. So give Ceres 
soome gravity and drop a comoet ot two on it. Then land a processing plant 
aand plow gas through it for 20 years, and you should have N2/o2 aplenty, 
and water as well. And it will stay there. then start the linchen drops, and 
moss's, and a few other starter culture seeds. Duckweed, blue-green algae, 
something that eats said primitives, ferns, them worms and a few select 
bugs, and away we go. Bugs, frogs, ducks, rabbits, mice, BEES, and we have a 
beginning ecology.

then comes along some dirty louse in a uniform with cooties, and it all goes 
to hell.

domhanai at juno.com wrote:
> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow) wrote:
>  
>> Oddly, there have been discussions of enclosing an entire planet in a 
>> "shell" which while it requires tech we don't have is actually 
>> *easier* as far as stresses go, because all of the "dome" is at the 
>> same altitude.
> 
> Are you refering to a "Dyson sphere" type of situation?
>  
> Cougashika - fun trumps tech
> 
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