#terraforming — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #terraforming, aggregated by home.social.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity, released in 1995
Released for: DOS
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Simulator; Strategy; Adventure
Science fiction, 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
aliens, spaceship, based on - tv show, diplomacy, micromanagement, based on - movie, terraforming, licensed game, human, sabotage, tie-in, planet, united federation of planets, starfleet
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/star-trek-the-next-gene…
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #aliens #spaceship #basedontvshow #diplomacy #micromanagement #basedonmovie #terraforming #licensedgame #human #sabotage #tiein #planet #unitedfederationofplanets #starfleet #dos #sciencefiction #4xexploreexpandexploitandexterminate -
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy Book 1) "Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real" Sale: $21 to $1.99 by Kim Stanley Robinson Rating: 4.2/5 (7,387 Reviews) #scifi #mars #terraforming #booksky #books #politics #hardscifi
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy Book 1) -
#Extremophiles that can digest #radiation ☢️ and toxicities are already used to clean up everything from oil spills to the fallout of radioactive sites.
This means we could #engineer microbes that are resistant to freezing ❄️ temperatures and high levels of radiation.
Given that #microbes 🦠 helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic #biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar process for #Mars 🔴 https://theconversation.com/how-to-engineer-microbes-to-enable-us-to-live-on-mars-253456
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We can consider three possible responses to the discovery of indigenous life on #Mars 🔴
• Leave it alone
• Alter Mars to enhance the chances of that biota to become a global scale biology
• Collect samples for laboratory preservation, then replace or augment it with #terrestrial life formsIt is very unlikely that we would drive to extinction any native #Martian #microorganisms 🦠 by extending the habitability of Mars
#RobertZubrin 2002
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The future of life in #space 🌌 will likely depend on our ability to simulate, design, and guide #microbial 🦠 ecosystems capable of adapting to #alien worlds. Biofilm-forming communities have demonstrated not only survivability but also functionality under simulated #Martian stressors. The viability of life beyond Earth will depend on the robustness and adaptability of collective #biological systems https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08973-1