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Old April 24th 09, 07:53 PM posted to sci.space.history
Al[_5_]
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I screwed up...
I meant to ask is there an antonym for Terra-forming?
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Old April 24th 09, 08:01 PM posted to sci.space.history
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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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Old April 24th 09, 09:34 PM posted to sci.space.history
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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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Old April 25th 09, 01:34 AM posted to sci.space.history
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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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Old April 25th 09, 09:41 PM posted to sci.space.history
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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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Old April 26th 09, 11:12 PM posted to sci.space.history
Al[_5_]
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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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