ESA Call for Proposals

Well, I am not a university, so I suppose I can kiss that goodbye. Thanks a heap.

Tornado:

If you live near a university with a good science and chemistry program you may still be in the game.

Perhaps that University would be interested in such a project. You might even be able to snag a few hours of Individual Studies credit just writing the proposal.

The purpose of my posting this thing was just to cast a little wider net for ESA. It would be really cool to see a US University connect with these folks.

We have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

I know nothing of this stuff but I wonder what advantage there would be to release green house gases just to have them stripped away my the solar wind.

Mars is a has been - the real interest is in what might have been; not what could be.

Venus is the obvious choice for terraforming experiments. I don't understand the focus on Mars except for the fact that its gravity well is much less than Venus making departure much less energy intensive.

I am not smart enough to compare the Holman transfer energies so I don't know which planet requires the least transfer energies.

I do believe Venus has the most raws materials for altering equilibrium temperature and establishing colonies. Perhaps not on the planets surface but floating in the atmosphere.

I wish there were greater cooperation in space applications.

Gavilan