DARPA Wants to Create Synthetic Organisms to Terraform and Change the Atmosphere of Mars

Hacked ^ | 6/25/15 | Giulio Prisco

[rikkir]

Why dont the Mexicans want to infiltrate Spain?

‘Cause eets hard to get a 65 Chevy cross da ocean gringo.
Don chew know nuttin man?

[catnipman]

they can terraform it all they want, but Mars is a dead planet with no heat in it’s core and no magnetosphere.

[PLMerite]

Isn't anyone going to ask the Synthetics what they think?

[LibWhacker]

They are already taking that into consideration: https://www.google.com/search?q=could+mars+be+given+an+artificial+magnetosphere%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[MaxMax]

Get Your Own Dirt

One day a group of scientists got together and decided
that man had come a long way and no longer needed God.
So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that
they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God
and said,

“God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We’re to
the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous
things, so why don’t you just go on and mind your own business?”

God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After
the scientist was done talking, God said, “Very well, how
about this? Let’s say we have a man-making contest.
”To which the scientist replied, “Okay, we can handle that!”

“But,” God added, “we’re going to do this just like I did
back in the old days with Adam.” The scientist said, “Sure,
no problem” and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.

God looked at him and said, “No, no, no. You go get your own dirt.”

[Oberon]

I think the article is malarkey. Mars has an atmosphere with only 1% of the barometric pressure of that of the earth. This isn't because there were never gases generated on Mars... it's because there's not a lot of gravity on Mars to hold a significant atmosphere in place. Whatever changes microbes manage to render to the Martian atmosphere, there will still never be enough air there to breathe.

Not to mention it's cold as a twitch's wit there.

[Organic Panic]

Send transgenders. They can colonize the entire planet and make it just the way they think it should be. Just like themselves. If you believe it enough, it just might come true.

[LibWhacker]

it's because there's not a lot of gravity on Mars to hold a significant atmosphere in place

The core cooled and its magnetosphere petered out. Without a strong magnetic field to protect it, the solar wind stripped away its atmosphere. It's more than mass; Titan is even less massive than Mars, and it has quite a hefty atmosphere.

[jimfree]

Genesis Project? Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

[silverleaf]

Genesis!

[JimRed]

Why dont the Mexicans want to infiltrate Spain?

It's too long a walk.

[MeshugeMikey]

the ARTICLE HAS ALL THE EARMARKS.... of being Trans..Atmospheric....

[MeshugeMikey]

Yes and That freak From Vermont..Bernice Saunders...and Sharpton...a SOROS....and maybe even Brian WIlliams

[MeshugeMikey]

Perhaps even our first Space-Case-American President, That Carter Guy......,and Barack Obama too?

[MeshugeMikey]

Synthetic Organisms ????

Dont we already have a family of them living in the Whitehouse??

[Teacher317]

Grand Ideas like this ALWAYS end well for everyone involved... except when it is actually tried...

[UCANSEE2]

The Story entitled “The Shoe on the other foot”.

It is the one about all the ‘blacks’ going to Mars.

[SandRat]

Shades of StarTrek.

[HamiltonJay]

This is idiotic, mars has no, or at least not a strong enough, electromagnetic field, so any “atmosphere” would simply get stripped away by the solar wind, just as its original atmosphere was.

If you are talking seeding the soil with bacteria so you can create an artificial enclosure that might be able to be sustainable if scaled big enough, but au natural, you can engineer a mars atmosphere without first protecting the planet from the solar wind.

[discostu]

Same kind of people that went to The New World, and Explored The West. There are people with a spirit of adventure.