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Here's how things would be in the Solar system if I were in charge:

Mercury would be the uber-powerhouse of the system, cuz it's closest to the sun, and covering the entire planet with solar panels... wow! Think of how much we'd save on the energy bills! :D

Venus would be a perfect getaway for storm chasers, and provides nice lighting (in the daytime, anyway), for those loverbirds who are "in the mood" ;) :fluffle:

Earth would be a good place to vacation and relax and enjoy nature.

Mars would be the action planet of the solar system, where we have HUGE places to blow up buildings, jump across vast canyons, etc. I think mars would be a great place for entertainment, because of the lower gravity, so people can jump higher. Explosions are bigger (hopefully) cuz projectiles go out a lot farther, and think of all the roller coasters we can put up! Of course, we'd have to terraform it first in order to have open-air carnivals.

the gas planets would be great places to mine hydrogen for spaceship fuels, and be good tourist destinations (but probably not for permanent residence due to all the radiation put out by the gas planets, unless we can shield ourselves perfectly from the radiation.)

And pluto, well, i'm gonna try may damnedest to terraform it and make it the capital of the Plutonian Empire. lol. :D

How would things be like if YOU were in charge?

One word:

Boom.

I think I've said this before, but... I would sell it to the mollusk people of Biandushia IV and then go on a galactic tour on my new luxury space yatch.

Reveal myself as the omnipotent God of the solar system and fling asteroids at Earth. Then laugh and hurl Pluto directly into the sun.

First off I'd tell Neptune and Pluto to figure out which of them was going to be the 9th planet and keep to it, that constant switching has just got to stop, it gives me a headache.

Then Murcury would have to straighten out and spin right. Do any of the rest of the planets have a day longer than a year? Get with the program Mercury.

And get that grin off your face Jupiter, and while you are it take off that red spot too. The Red Spot is some sort atttention getting divice and I won't stand for that type of grandstanding.

That should do it for the planets, the rings are fine and otherwise things on a planetary scale seem to be going fine. Now moons, I have no idea where to start the list. What's this with only one moon for Earth, and it's way too big to be a moon for a planet the size of Earth anyway. I'd have to leave any choices for the moons until after I had a chance to calm down, that moon of Earth just ticks me off so much.

I'd bitch-slap that loser pluto ...

Hm. I don't know that much can be done with Mercury but it would *possibly* be a good place to hang a pair of L5 colonies...

Venus - I would terraform via the "bluegreen algae" method.

Earth is mostly fine as it is but the Moon might be a good place for a colony. I suspect they could make money through the sail of regolith for topsoil on Earth. I'd also install a lineup of Solar Power Satellites for energy to Earth and add a couple of more weather satellites.

Mars would be another good planet to Terraform and I'd mine the asteroids for water(Or rather the basic ingredients thereof) and minerals.

Some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn look interesting but I'd probably leave them for after we'd gotten the inner Solar System settled. :)

I'd bitch-slap that loser pluto ...
why? :(

why? :(

It's classified as a planet under false pretenses. Google 'Kuiper Belt' and you'll see what I mean.

Cowboy Bebop. Enough said.

It's classified as a planet under false pretenses. Google 'Kuiper Belt' and you'll see what I mean.
Oh, yeah. that. I don't mind. Call it what ever you want, it's still my favorite object in the solarsystem. :)

Mercury: Mine it out. Seriously. Not a lot else can be done with it.

Venus: Terraform however. Just as long as it can be made green. Otherwise drain off the atmosphere and go from there. Probably too active yet for industry.

the Moon: Industry a go go. Caveat being it still has to look from Earth as it did before.

Mars: If something truly cool can be done with it, do it. Truly cool meaning like with Venus. If not, see the Moon.

Phobos and Deimos: Did somebody say SPACE ELEVATOR? (Fallback to skyhook if this idea proves unworkable or otherwise sucks.)

The Asteroids: Mine 'em out. Seriously. Not a lot else can be done with 'em. Maybe industrialize the big round ones, but that's about it.

The Gas Giants: Not a lot whatsoever can be done with them. See if any base elements can be snagged, but otherwise not so good.

The Gas Giants' Moons: There's a whole lotta fun stuff can be done with these babies. Mining, terraforming, industry, the works.

The Kuiper Belt (Pluto, this means you): That's a lot of ice and base stuff to be had. Might be useful, especially to give Mars a fighting chance at greening. Anything solid would be good for the least desirable industries (see prison, etc) and -of course- the best damn observatories in the system.

Anything terraformed or otherwise green or blue (Earth, Venus, Europa, maybe Ganymede and Callisto, this means you): A habitable atmosphere means you can do two really important things from a civilization's point of view.
First, you can live. The upshot of this should be painfully obvious.
Second, you can farm. This helps a lot with that 'live' thing.
Also, with plenty of greenworlds now, you can move a lot of people to different parts of the system and keep the crush of humanity on the homeworld from banging it up too bad from now on.

First I'd build a civilization inside the sun (pay heed to the laws of reallity at great danger from here on in) I'd build it on the inner surface...just because.

Then Id terraform the Moon and turn it into a giant nature preserve and Interplanetary Park.

Mercury I'd keep the way it is, just for cedorative purposes. I'd turn Venus into a waterworld and establish another civilisation there.

Earth I'd leave its crazy self.

Mars would just be another decorative piece, except for the vast fleet of Space Zeppelins that would be parked there.

Jupiter would be colonized with cloud cities, and each moon would be turned into a vast resort.

Saturn. Saturn is a Badass. Nobody messes with Saturn

Uranus...I won't touch Uranus. Its yours, you just keep it to yourself, okay?

Neptune Would be another water world, and what the hell, a civilization in the clouds to mirror the one below the waves would be amusing. This is where all the Aliens races would chose to settle down in the solar system.

Pluto would be the anything goes world. The planet of freaks and insanity.

I'd turn asterroids into space and dimension travelling cities, like enormous spaceships.


Sometimes, being insane is fun.

Mercury: Mine it out. Seriously. Not a lot else can be done with it.

Venus: Terraform however. Just as long as it can be made green. Otherwise drain off the atmosphere and go from there. Probably too active yet for industry.

the Moon: Industry a go go. Caveat being it still has to look from Earth as it did before.

Mars: If something truly cool can be done with it, do it. Truly cool meaning like with Venus. If not, see the Moon.

Phobos and Deimos: Did somebody say SPACE ELEVATOR? (Fallback to skyhook if this idea proves unworkable or otherwise sucks.)

The Asteroids: Mine 'em out. Seriously. Not a lot else can be done with 'em. Maybe industrialize the big round ones, but that's about it.

The Gas Giants: Not a lot whatsoever can be done with them. See if any base elements can be snagged, but otherwise not so good.

The Gas Giants' Moons: There's a whole lotta fun stuff can be done with these babies. Mining, terraforming, industry, the works.

The Kuiper Belt (Pluto, this means you): That's a lot of ice and base stuff to be had. Might be useful, especially to give Mars a fighting chance at greening. Anything solid would be good for the least desirable industries (see prison, etc) and -of course- the best damn observatories in the system.

Anything terraformed or otherwise green or blue (Earth, Venus, Europa, maybe Ganymede and Callisto, this means you): A habitable atmosphere means you can do two really important things from a civilization's point of view.
First, you can live. The upshot of this should be painfully obvious.
Second, you can farm. This helps a lot with that 'live' thing.
Also, with plenty of greenworlds now, you can move a lot of people to different parts of the system and keep the crush of humanity on the homeworld from banging it up too bad from now on.
That’s basically Cowboy Bebop. :D

That’s basically Cowboy Bebop. :D

YES!! ^_^

That’s basically Cowboy Bebop. :D

Cowboy Bebop had space elevators? o.0

Also, since I forgot, I should mention what should be done with the sun:

Dyson swarm + Microwave power transmission = Big ol' pile of awesome.

Probably build it out of bits of Mercury, too.

Cowboy Bebop had space elevators? o.0
Well except for that. I did say "basically", not "entirely".
They’d just end up getting blown up in Bebop. :p

And pluto, well, i'm gonna try may damnedest to terraform it and make it the capital of the Plutonian Empire. lol. :D
So you had a hidden agenda when you created this thread. Thats good to know.

Anyways, I would try to force all the gas giants together into one big superplanet (or if it becomes massive enough a star).

Make the sun orbit around the Earth, somehow, someway.

Well except for that. I did say "basically", not "entirely".
They’d just end up getting blown up in Bebop. :p

It also didn't have Moon factories, a cannibalised Mercury, ... Earth (at least as we know it)...

I'd move Jupiter's orbit out by about 10 km and watch with glee as the asteroid belt begins to loosen up and pummel Earth.

Weeee! Random goodness.

You realize this might be a bad idea before we as a species has somewhere to go and, you know, not die, I hope.

It also didn't have Moon factories, a cannibalised Mercury, ... Earth (at least as we know it)...
I hear Ganymede and Callisto in the same sentence and I think Bebop. Can’t help it. It’s a sickness.

If I were in charge of the solar system, I'd build a Dyson sphere and not let the sun let any light out. That's what the fuck I'd do!

You realize this might be a bad idea before we as a species has somewhere to go and, you know, not die, I hope.

Why do people always talk about extinction as if it's a bad thing?

Sure, it's the end of all the bright uneven pages that we've written through the ages, but on the bright side, it's party time for all the cockroaches!

Someone mentioned a space elevator for mars? We can't do that on earth at the moment, but maybe we could manage one for mars soon. (One third the gravity, see.) Wouldn't that be neat? Of course, it would probably be too expensive to make one strong enough to take people, but who needs them? Trained cockroaches will do.

If I were in charge of the solar system, I'd build a Dyson sphere and not let the sun let any light out. That's what the fuck I'd do!

Then no one would see the sun and you'd ruin the constellation, The Big Gonad in the skies of elipson endari.

I think it's because we have no bloody clue yet whether or not we're the only form of life to have some degree of sentience. If our species dying off - especially in such a way as to erase all the meaning we may have had -means there's no more thinking in the universe, I think that can safely be considered a Bad Thing.

I think it's because we have no bloody clue yet whether or not we're the only form of life to have some degree of sentience. If our species dying off - especially in such a way as to erase all the meaning we may have had -means there's no more thinking in the universe, I think that can safely be considered a Bad Thing.

Yes, but on the bright side there would be no one around to realize that it was a bad thing!


Oh all right, you have a point. The destruction of humanity would be a non trivial inconvenience.