The future of Man doesn't lie in gravity wells.
What could go wrong dont mess with mother nature
Very cool. Where there is water...there can be beer.
It seems to me that, if they want to grow the atmosphere, they need to grow the mass of the planet. Mars isn’t that much bigger than our moon and its lack of gravitational pull would make it hard to hold onto an atmosphere.
The future of Man doesn't lie in gravity wells.
Horrible for Earth, but OK on Mars?
NASA is missing a great opportunity. They should restrict movement of people to Mars to only Democrats. Exclude the frozen CO2 since Democrats know that CO2 is VERY harmful and let them live their wonderful Democrat life in a CO2 free atmosphere!
The cool thing about this, is that if the magnetic poles on Earth are about the change, and if in the interim the magnetic field dies down significantly, then a similar apparatus could be placed between the Sun and Earth during the transition to protect our atmosphere.
Here in the U.S. they want to prevent global warming while in space they evidently want to increase global warming.
I remember an old SF novel - “The Sands of Mars” by Arthur C Clarke. They solved the issue by lighting Deimos on fire to create a new sun IIRC.
Hmmmm…. So when they figure it out that it was only about 6,000 years ago, I assume that would be a bit of a problem for the theory behind this scheme, no?
Liquify the core? That’s a lot of mass.
I’ve been turning over ideas for a Mars-global artificial magnetic field for a few months now. If we want to make the planet truly habitable we need to warm it up, but without a magnetic field the solar wind would simply strip it away at a faster rate as heat expansion made the atmosphere larger.
Any global field would require a lot of energy due to the flux, but it wouldn’t have to be very strong at any one point (although I’ve been mulling the benefits of large distributed infrastructure that produce weak fields over a large area vs. large numbers of small infrastructure elements that each produce very strong fields in a small area).
We don’t need a global magnetic field on Mars to establish an outpost, but if we plan to have humans stay there forever, then we do need one. The technology isn’t new by any stretch, but we’ll need to establish real manufacturing on Mars to make it happen.
I can’t believe the PC dweeb at the end of the presentation who said that “Let’s take it” sounded imperialistic to him and asked if the presenter was speaking as a human or as a representative of the United States Government. I so wanted to kick him in the sack.
In another 500 to 1000 years it might be possible.
Wouldnt the water evaporate and block the weak sunlight...cooling the planet? Dont you really need enuf gravity to hold the gases in the atmosphere...for colonization...probably better to construct underground magnetically shielded environment...either way...a daunting problem...will earth last that long? Will our progeny die on a lifeless mars?
I thought Mar’s relatively weak gravity was the reason for it’s thin atmosphere.
Let’s do it.
Hell, I’ll go...
Hate humans anyway....But, I will need a harem of 150 of your finest women....
Suddenly occurs to me:
“So you are saying you want to create Global Warming?”
The irony is rich...