Crashing Planets Together

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Brad Walsh" wrote:
> >Why would be crashing planets together? That just plan nuts!
>
> I assume he's frustrated that the ones we have now in the H2O zone don't
> have everything he wants, so he's hoping for some kind of macro-level
> alchemy to make a second habitable planet in ol' Sol's brood of chicks.
> Shows the lengths terraformers will go to avoid caving in to the Island 3
> arguments.
>
> Brad

Science fiction writer L. Neil Smith had a story where Venus was blown up to make batches of space colonies from.

Maybe that shows the lengths we'll go to in avoiding terraforming arguments. :)

Rick