Crashing Planets Together

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"
> --- In spacesettlers, "rick000brooks" wrote:
>
> > --- In spacesettlers, "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. :)
>
> OK. How many habitats could you make from Venus? As we've
> established that it is OK to crash it into Mars and Mercury, it
aught
> to be OK to blow it up.
>