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To: SunkenCiv

It’s warming Mars too. The polar ice caps are melting there.

And there seems to be warming on Pluto.

That George Bush is just too darn dangerous!


4 posted on 04/24/2007 8:22:57 AM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

Okay...here’s a follow up to that. One idea about how to make Mars habitable is to melt the ice caps, thereby freeing CO2 and H2O into the atmosphere. This would cause a runaway greenhouse effect freeing more CO2 from the regolith. This would in effect raise Mars’ atmospheric pressure to something that we could reasonably work in in a shirt-sleeve environment, except with breathing masks/air tanks. If the ice caps melt, with this process start?


5 posted on 04/24/2007 9:31:01 AM PDT by AntiKev ("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
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