Planet vs Terraform - What's the difference?
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*, II.12:
*:Be they not dreames of humane vanity,?
*1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society, 1973, p.288:
*:The moonbegan to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet , and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society, 2012, p.361:
*:Another of Boehme's followers, the Welshman Morgan Llwyd, also believed that the seven planets could be found within man.
(lb) A body which orbits the Sun directly and is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (effectively meaning a spheroid) and to dominate its orbit; specifically, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto was considered a planet until 2006 and has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet.)
*1640 , (John Wilkins), (title):
*:A Discovrse concerning a New Planet'. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is one of the ' Planets .
*2006 , Alok Jha, The Guardian , 22 December:
*:Their decision will force a rewrite of science textbooks because the solar system is now a place with eight planets' and three newly defined "dwarf ' planets "—a new category of object that includes Pluto.
A large body which directly orbits any star (or star cluster) but which has not attained nuclear fusion.
In phrases such as the planet'', ''this planet , sometimes refers to the Earth.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet ." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (science fiction) To transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1942
, date = July
, first = Jack
, last = Williamson
, authorlink = Jack Williamson
, magazine =
, title = Collision Orbit
, volume = 29
, issue = 5
, page = 82
, passage = He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun.
}}
Earthscape
As a noun planet
is .As a verb terraform is
(science fiction) to transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of earth.planet
English
(wikipedia planet)Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: