Posted on 07/30/2018 3:44:07 PM PDT by LibWhacker
It'll be 20 million years from now.
That's nonsense -- the solar wind would require millions of years to "blow away" the Martian atmosphere.
Scatter the planet’s surface with weed seeds, they grow anywhere and everywhere.......
Maybe there are no aliens.
Reminds me of the mining colony setting for the movie Outland. A lot of money could be made out there.
“Pipe dreams are more realistic than your suggestions.”
I don’t anticipate anyone spending the money in the next decades for terraforming Mars, and beyond that any forecast is mush. This is really about discussing if it is even possible. It is a thought experiment, not a project proposal. Einstein talking about travelling at the speed of light is still further out there than terraforming Mars is, even a hundred years later.
In the future, robots could well be intelligent enough to build other robots from raw materials, so that you only have to buy an initial small number, and let them build a workforce large enough for the project own their own.
Do you have any specific (logical, factual) points to raise, or you just want to rail that “Man will never fly” or some such?
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Simply, I believe the Word of Yehova.
Soon you will too!
The machinery would be mostly autonomous / robotic, with a minimum human presence, and probably the construction of the mining and processing machinery would be done in space, using much smaller equipment with somewhat similar functions. Hmm, that does sound like Outland. Sean Connery, wasn’t it?
Naturally, the priority in the financial sense would be to eliminate the national debt, while soaking up paper money that would be flooding in to buy the gold/silver coins (perhaps a 50-50 blend, very attractive, and a metallic foam) at well above their face value (because the market value of the gold/silver content would be much higher for quite a while). The entire budget for such a program would be more than offset, simutaneously, by the ongoing sale of the coins. As the deficit and debt vanished, the interest paid on the debt would spiral down, reducing deficits (ideally).
It was basically a remake of High Noon, set in space. I'm pretty much a sucker for movies with Sean Connery or space themes.
Connery is the Marshal who uncovers corruption underlying a series of deaths. The bad guys come after him and he gets no help from the locals.
But, it got me to wondering what mining elsewhere in the Solar System might look like.
I'm pretty sure I've never seen the movie, but there was an installment done in a graphic novel format in "Heavy Metal" when the movie was about to be released.
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