{"id":127994,"date":"2021-09-23T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/how-does-terraforming-work-in-the-alien-universe"},"modified":"2021-09-23T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:22:19","slug":"how-does-terraforming-work-in-the-alien-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/how-does-terraforming-work-in-the-alien-universe","title":{"rendered":"How does terraforming work in the Alien universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-terraforming-work-in-the-alien-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to <em>Aliens<\/em>, we find \u201cBuilding Better Worlds\u201d as the main slogan of the nefarious Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Apparently, terraforming (and presumably mining) celestial bodies is a large part of their galactic business. When acid hits the fan and the xenomorphs take over Hadley\u2019s Hope, their operations on LV-426 have been active for decades. But is that enough time for Acheron (formally labelled as LV-426) to develop a breathable atmosphere?<\/p>\n<p>The film itself doesn\u2019t have many answers when it comes to terraforming, but the procedure appears to revolve around reutilizing the existing atmosphere \u2013 breaking down pre-existing elements, transforming, and redistributing them \u2013 instead of starting from scratch, which would indeed take centuries. Basically, mankind can\u2019t turn any planet or planetoid into an Earth-like environment in the Alien universe; most components need to be present already, same goes for the atmospheric conditions. This fixes the centuries-long problem that comes up in other works of fiction, or at least makes the storytelling more realistic.<\/p>\n<p>Complementary material detailing the Alien universe\u2019s history and technology claim the first \u201cAutomated Atmosphere Processor\u201d became a reality in 2,029 with a first terraforming process happening on Gliese 667 Cc during the 2030s and ending around 2040. The Weyland Corp Terraforming Division was created in 2,072 effectively starting a new age of space exploration. As stated before, native atmospheres are transformed thanks to the company\u2019s \u201cAtmosphere Processing Plants\u201d and other techniques, such as algae bloom tanks that consume excess carbon dioxide and generate oxygen. It all depends on the properties of planets which have been previously scouted, inspected, and approved for viable terraformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Aliens, we find \u201cBuilding Better Worlds\u201d as the main slogan of the nefarious Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Apparently, terraforming (and presumably mining) celestial bodies is a large part of their galactic business. When acid hits the fan and the xenomorphs take over Hadley\u2019s Hope, their operations on LV-426 have been active for decades. But is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,38,1507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-engineering","category-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}