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- noun The creation of an artifically-generated, sustainable
ecosystem on a lifelessplanet .
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Examples
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The greening of Mars required two different kinds of planetary engineering: crude terraforming, to raise the surface temperature and atmospheric pressure to a plausible threshold for life, and ecopoiesis: using microbial and plant life to condition the soil and oxygenate the air.
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But there were many possible routes to ecopoiesis, many candidate organisms, from rock-dwelling bacteria to alpine mosses.
Spin 2005
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After we ordered she turned her head, listening as fragments of conversation — words like "photodissociation" and "cryptoendelithic" and, yes, "ecopoiesis" — spilled over from crowded tables, journalists rehearsing the jargon for their next day's work or just struggling to understand it.
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The Spin had given us the necessary leverage for a long ecopoiesis.
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There were more launches during the spring and summer of that year, surveillance packages that spent months in high Earth orbit and returned with visual and spectrographic images of Mars — snapshots of the ecopoiesis.
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qms commented on the word ecopoiesis
The Martian colonial thesis
Includes some challenging pieces,
So develop a taste
For personal waste -
The menu of ecopoiesis.
October 30, 2015