[molson209]

WHAT ever happened to pumping CO2 into the atmosphere to warm up Mars , LOL

[PGR88]

So man is trying to CREATE climate change on Mars?

[al baby]

How about water in so cal

[Veggie Todd]

Martian warming!

[yarddog]

It is interesting to me as the first feeble attempts to maybe live on another planet. They will not succeed unless they have water, oxygen, food, and shelter.

Shelter would probably be the least of their problems as they could send the materials to build from earth but they couldn’t continually supply water, oxygen and food.

To start with they could supply all from earth for a very limited time but for long time survival they will have to learn to produce it all from the resources on Mars.

Is that doable? I don’t think it is as far as food at least right now. They may actually find water which would really help.

[lurk]

A machine to turn co2 into oxygen. Isn’t that what plants do? Why not send up a probe to dig some holes and put in some tundra-tolerant plants?

[Steely Tom]

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 novel The Sands of Mars describes a project for generating a breathable atmosphere on Mars that's a bit way-out, but plausible.

I think this is great, however. I hope it works. There sure is a lot of real estate out there on the Red Planet.

[Jack Hydrazine]

There’s supposed to be water on Mars. Just make an electrolysis and capture the O2!

[Jmouse007]

"Wayland Corporation: 'Building better worlds.'" Yea, great idea... what could possibly go wrong?

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit... it's the only way to make sure!"

[Viking2002]

I have a cat beside me who is a self-propelled methane plant. Tuna in, methane out.