2012-01-10, 23:06
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Supreme Grocer
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
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This is from one of the earlier chapters:
Spoiler:
A xerophilous algae was discovered in the sea of Jupiter's second moon Europa, allowing for a rapid terraformation of Mars to progress. More than two hundred Earth years ago, Mars was gradually becoming warm by a greenhouse effect of a simulated (artificial) atmosphere of chlorofluorohydrocarbons. However, there was still a lot of carbon dioxide, thus creatures were unable to breathe in the then current state. Even if the polar ice caps were melted slightly due to global warming, it would immediately be sucked up by the ground and the seas that started to form would return to deserts during the winter.
Lana Green, an After Colony space development researcher, was the first person to consider using the Europan algae on Mars. While "Europan algae" was a great discovery at the time scientifically, it was useful on a real-life level but it was a troublesome thing that caused harm in the global environment. Plankton that is commonly called "Jupiter moss" multiplied at an astounding speed when the "Europan algae" that was under the thick ice and ocean depths bathes in the sunlight. {what? I need to re-read this} When the Jupiter moss was made to propagate on Mars, global warming and afforestation {greening} accelerated at once.
The terraforming that was said to take hundreds of years was estimated to finish in mere decades. Nonetheless, for something that was never realized, the After Colony eras first frontrunners had a “concern for environmental destruction on a planetary scale”.
And then, there was an accident.
One of the resource satellites transported one by one from the Earth Sphere deviated from its programmed orbit and came crashing down on the planet. Properly speaking, that object was the resource satellite known as “MO-VII”. The place where it fell was the Argyre Planitia in the southern hemisphere. Similarly, the Hellas Planitia also in the southern hemisphere also experienced the same ordeal when a large asteroid collided with the surface during the Late Heavy Bombardment period. There, another resource satellite fell forming a huge double crater.
That problem was is that they say that the algae seemed to have been mixed up with the ice inside the resource satellite. That was dissolved and exposed to the sunlight. There was an outbreak of Jupiter moss that multiplied rapidly.
No one knew what would become of Mars for a while. Those living on Mars due to paraterraforming didn't notice the slow environmental changes outside of their domes either. Sandstorms still blew violently over the lands, the scenery of the red ground and sky unchanging as always. It was noticed for the first time when the moss was multiplying in Mars' groundwater arteries and the average yearly temperature started to rise. And then in just a few short years, half of the Martian desert was filled with sea water. Argyre’s double crater filled with green water and became a massive lake or rather a sea.
Oxygen density rose at once. Air pressure also wasn’t that different from Earth anymore. Because of the Jupiter moss outbreak from the Argyre double crater, when the place became a sea, it became known as the "Lana Green Sea". In that spot a huge, artificial marine state was constructed, thus giving birth to the Lanagreen Republic (or Commonwealth).
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「では、人間は、何故、戦うのか?
戦うことに存在意義があるのかもしれない。
戦っている人間には充実感がある。
そして、戦っている人間が汚れて見えないのも事実だ」
So why do people fight, anyway?
Perhaps the meaning of existence lies within their will to fight.
People feel a sense of accomplishment through battle.
And it’s also a fact that the ones actually fighting are never perceived as being tainted.
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