Posted on 03/17/2016 11:37:24 AM PDT by LibWhacker
That would be man-made climate change. BAD. Not allowed.
Nuke it from orbit?
You can’t really because there is no Van Allen belt so all the atmosphere is venting into space blown off the planet by the solar winds. Mars must have cooled down and locked the iron core at the center from spinning in molten lava so it is not producing a magnetic field.
Geez. We’ve “ruined” this planet now we’re gonna “ruin” another one? Just plant some kudzoo. It’ll grow just about anywhere. :>)
I read this fairly quickly, but why have they neglected the lack of a martian gravitational field to hold that atmosphere in place as being the most important thing of all?
Potatoes!
Based on the book? Poop and potatoes.
Mine coal, build several coal power electrical plants, drive a bunch of SUV around......
“That would be man-made climate change. BAD. Not allowed.”
BEST comment I’ll read all day. Kudos.
They think Mars is the size of their Brains
First step would be to increase the energy available. This can be done by either retaining the heat better (altering the atmosphere) or by increasing sun light hitting the surface via the use of Lagrange points and mirrors.
beer. lots of beer
Pretty dumb. Mars is not fit for human life. It may have been, but no longer is. An inordinate amount of energy would be needed to change Mars’ environment to one that can sustain the complete ecosystem of Earth, including plants, animals, bacteria, viruses.
And if this were possible, it would not last long. The forces of nature on Mars would soon send Mars back to its present state.
Humans are not optimized for living on Mars. Humans would not thrive. It would take hundreds of thousands of years of succeeding generations for a noticeable adaptation. Meanwhile, the humans living on Mars would be out of their element and in a state of constant stress for being in an environment for which they are not adapted.
Fact is, all we will ever be able to do in space is live underground. Same thing everywhere else. Tunnels and galleries.
Yep. Nukes would eject ice from under the surface and radiation would warm things up a bit.
Nope - that won’t work. Mar’s atmosphere is already mostly CO2. CO2 is only considered a greenhouse gas here on earth where the rules of chemistry and physics are different I guess than on Mars.
Build a giant microwave oven around it!
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