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I screwed up...
I meant to ask is there an antonym for Terra-forming? |
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Al wrote: I screwed up... I meant to ask is there an antonym for Terra-forming? Global Warming? :-) Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Al wrote: I screwed up... I meant to ask is there an antonym for Terra-forming? Global Warming? :-) Pat Paving? :-) Dave |
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On Apr 24, 3:34*pm, David Spain wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote: Al wrote: I screwed up... I meant to ask is there an antonym for Terra-forming? Global Warming? :-) Pat Paving? :-) Dave Yeah too easy! What if , say, you wanted to transform the Earth into Venus, a - forming name for that. Veno-forming does not sound right. Aphrod-forming neither...... Must be a clever name? |
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On Apr 24, 5:34*pm, Al wrote:
On Apr 24, 3:34*pm, David Spain wrote: Pat Flannery wrote: Al wrote: I screwed up... I meant to ask is there an antonym for Terra-forming? Global Warming? :-) Pat Paving? :-) Dave Yeah too easy! What if , say, you wanted to transform the Earth into Venus, a - forming name for that. Veno-forming does not sound right. Aphrod-forming neither...... Must be a clever name? Well, Venus suffers from what's usually referred to as a 'runaway greenhouse effect', so you might use that. The adjective form of Venus is 'veneral', but science fiction writers tended to use 'venusian', which is more equivalent to 'earthling', grammatically. Isaac Asimov once suggested 'Cytherian' (spelling uncertain), after Cyprus, where Aphrodite came ashore according to one myth. Not knowing what your intended use is makes these things difficult. Since 'terra-forming' means 'to make more like Earth', 'anti-terra- forming' would be 'to make less (or unlike) Earth', and there would be several tracks to follow. Aside from the Venus model already suggested, one could strip a planet of its atmosphere entirely. Or use radioactives (the theoretical cobalt bomb) to sterilize the planet. Smash a large enough moon or comet into it. If you can move the planet itself, move it either closer or further from the sun, or eject it from the system altogether. (sigh) You can tell I read WAY too much science-fiction. Oh, that's right. It's 'sy-fy' (TM) nowadays. I'm going back to anime... |
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On Apr 25, 4:03*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
wrote: Well, Venus suffers from what's usually referred to as a 'runaway greenhouse effect', so you might use that. The adjective form of Venus is 'veneral', but science fiction writers tended to use 'venusian', which is more equivalent to 'earthling', grammatically. Isaac Asimov once suggested 'Cytherian' (spelling uncertain), after Cyprus, where Aphrodite came ashore according to one myth. In the movie "The Arrival" didn't someone refer to converting the Earth into something easily habitable to the Pleiadians by raising its temperature as "exo-forming"? Pat I have the suggestion 'xenoformin' or maybe 'xeno-forming' ..., ok with me, but not , ... , well I may yet get to the idea I want ...., Al |
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