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To: Ancient Drive

I saw that show too. It also mentioned that Mars’ moon is much too small to stabilize it and its axis moves all over the place. Yet in other shows they have no problem talking about terraforming Mars into a planet with plants, water, atmosphere and all the rest. But it’s clear that it can’t be done with the poles wandering all over the place.


4 posted on 01/16/2012 2:23:43 AM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye

The real problem with terra-forming Mars is that it has no magnetosphere. The Earth’s magnetosphere keeps the solar winds from blowing our atmosphere away.


15 posted on 01/16/2012 3:35:20 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: TigersEye

Earth and the moon are really more of a dual planet system.

Obviously we can’t terraform mars today but given the rate of our technological advances, who knows what we will be able to do in a few hundred or thousand years.


27 posted on 01/16/2012 4:49:47 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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