The Way That I Get Things Done: Notes to: Tour of Our Terraformed Solar System

Material Covered:

Mercury

"We'll be spending most of our time on the cool poles--away from the oven-like deserts, ever-burning jungles and roiling, hypercane-spawning seas of the equator."
"There are a few migrating twilight cities as well: massive population centers floating over Mercury's oceans and hovering over the deserts, always several miles behind the scalding terminator storm."
Planetary engineers needed to transfer enough air from one side of the planet to the other to keep the weather mild, but not enough to turn Mercury into a greenhouse oven. To that end, they imported comets with the least amount of carbon dioxide[...] and other greenhouse gases possible."
"Mercury had ICE. This was a huge lure for the explorers of the inner solar system; early on, water was a key limiting resource."

Venus

"The continents didn't grow up in an ocean, so there are no clean continental shelves. The landmasses are all coastline: convoluted littoral fractals and archipelagos."

Moon

"The Loonies don't seem to mind the fact that their world will die soon after they do; it's a point of pride that Luna's biosphere is (at least on very long timescales) fully dependent on humanity for its survival."

Mars

"There are no continents per se, just a giant northern ocean and an equally large southern landmass, interrupted only by a few strange canyons and two large inland seas."
"The highest parts of Olympus Mons and the Tharsis plateau are never going to be properly terraformed; they're just glaciers and bare red rock."

Jupiter

Helioforming.
"The Solar System doesn't have one sun, it has three: Jupiter and Saturn (or Zohal, as it's known now) have joined Sol in the exclusive sun club."
"Jupiter is swollen, red-hot, and sports four little blue and green worlds."

Saturn

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