[BenLurkin]

[ElkGroveDan]

The scientists suggested a few ways to pull it off. These include restarting and circulating Mars’ iron core

Oh well that sounds easy. Let's do it tomorrow then.

[Track9]

I just plug a power strip into itself and everything works great.

[butlerweave]

They want to squeeze Mars to try and make it’s core molten ? LOL How do they know it already not molten but just Too far away from the Sun

[ecomcon]

The utter hubris. We can’t even unload container ships anymore, and we’re going to terraform Mars?

[BobL]

No need for a magnetic field - just throw a few GPS satellites up there and people will be able to get around.

[oh8eleven]

It's not nice to fool mother nature ...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We have gone from unbelievable technical lengths to prevent the introduction of ANY microorganism from earth into other planets (”do no harm”) to now thinking about how to create new magnetic fields around other planets to make them hospitable for earth organisms.

Nothing like consistency.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

We just need to send all the celebrities to Mars who won't be able to survive another Trump presidency.

Their magnetic personalities should keep the cosmic rays and solar wind at bay.

[Bayard]

Just drill to the core of Mars and blow up about a hundred million nukes or so.

That’s all it takes from my random idea with no scientific thought behind it whatsoever.

[RckyRaCoCo]

[Tallguy]

Man-made global warming anyone?

[digger48]

This might make Marvin very, very angry

[jimfree]

How hard can it be?

[Openurmind]

JUST LEAVE IT ALONE...

Fishing for funds scam. Not one tax dollar should be spent on this.

[BitWielder1]

Just put a superconducting cable around the equator and crank some current into it.
We can do that on earth too when the natural magnetic field fails.

[TonyM]

Just activate those ancient alien reactors under the surface to melt the underground ice and release oxygen. It worked immediately for Arnold.

[Vaduz]

Tesla shakes head wrong wrong.....

[Windcatcher]

I’ve been saying for a while elsewhere that the only way to terraform Mars is to first give it a global magnetic field. I think the best way would be to ring the surface with a superconducting cable and power it up. The circumference of Mars is about 12,000 miles: while it’s feasible to construct 12,000 miles worth of superconducting cable and even feasible to power it with a standard fission reactor, transporting and assembling sections all around the Martian equator is a problem. We’d need automated rovers at each landing point to unspool and connect the various sections. That said, it would be easier to manufacture the cable on Earth than to stand up the infrastructure to create the cable on Mars. To manufacture it on Mars requires locating, mining, and refining the necessary materials, manufacturing the cable, and then sending it out from a single manufacturing plant all the way around the planet’s circumference.

[freefdny]

I just looked it up, the average temperature on mars is minus 81 degrees F. If we just send all our horrible gasoline consuming cars and trucks there it will cause global warming and all the CO2 hanging around will give you an atmosphere in no time.