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Red Planet Turning Green?
WCBS TV ^ | 08/11/05

Posted on 08/11/2005 7:10:05 PM PDT by KevinDavis

CBS) There’s a new mission to Mars. But we’re not talking about cute little robot rovers anymore.

CBS News Correspondent Jerry Bowen reports on a plan to turn the Red Planet into a green one – one that could support life.

"What we propose is to use greenhouse gases – the same ones that are currently on the earth causing climate change," said Margarita Marinova, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology.

That's right. Earthlings are thinking of using the same toxic stuff already blamed for global warming here to put some life back on Mars.

Marinova says that the goal is to warm Mars enough so that the planet’s south polar cap will evaporate.

(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mars; needmoremassnumbnuts; terraforming
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1 posted on 08/11/2005 7:10:07 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 08/11/2005 7:11:02 PM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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To: KevinDavis

Man, just wait for the enviro-psychos to start picketing terraforming...


3 posted on 08/11/2005 7:13:06 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: KevinDavis
Earthlings are thinking of using the same toxic stuff already blamed for global warming here to put some life back on Mars

Yep, pretty TOXIC stuff might be used to reanimate a dead world. Sheesh.

Bomb Mars with frozen oxygen, that's the ticket. Burn up the methane in the atmosphere, create water, put enough O2 for breathing...

What the heck, it makes more sense than the plan written about above.

4 posted on 08/11/2005 7:13:17 PM PDT by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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To: KevinDavis

Isn't part of the problem that Mars' gravity is so light that any thick atmosphere will escape to space? Even with a warm oxygen atmosphere, wouldn't it be too thin to breath?


5 posted on 08/11/2005 7:14:51 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: KevinDavis
Sounds a little like a first step to the SF trilogy:
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
6 posted on 08/11/2005 7:15:00 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Trad-Ang Ping: I read the dreck so you don't have to || Iran Azadi)
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To: KevinDavis

The current atmosphere - what little of it there is - is almost entirely CO2. Am I correct?

Very little Nitrogen. Some methane. Unknown if the gravity on Mars is capable of retaining an atmosphere. If you need more gravity, you have to play billiards with Mars and an asteroid in order to increase its' spin rate.

I can see the enviros letting that happen.


7 posted on 08/11/2005 7:17:20 PM PDT by datura (Molon Labe)
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To: SunTzuWu

What is the martian gravity? I don't recall. But if the planet is holding onto methane, I would presume it could hold onto oxygen and nitrogen; they are both denser than methane (easier to hold).


8 posted on 08/11/2005 7:17:34 PM PDT by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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To: atomicpossum

And they will.


9 posted on 08/11/2005 7:17:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: SunTzuWu
Isn't part of the problem that Mars' gravity is so light that any thick atmosphere will escape to space?

Another part of the problem is that the whole greenhouse gas thing and global warming are frauds.

ML/NJ

10 posted on 08/11/2005 7:17:39 PM PDT by ml/nj
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It would take hundreds of years but eventually ice sheets would melt, grass would grow here, and temperatures would hit 50 degrees along the equator of the planet. Martian organisms might be revived too – if there are any

The strangest thing that I found was that even with that statement,which shows the whole scheme to be idiocy,this was still printed as a serious scientific article.

11 posted on 08/11/2005 7:18:00 PM PDT by carlr
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Yep... The bad thing about the Mars trilogy is that it started to praise socialism.....


12 posted on 08/11/2005 7:18:35 PM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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To: datura
If you need more gravity, you have to play billiards with Mars and an asteroid in order to increase its' spin rate.

Where did you go to school?

13 posted on 08/11/2005 7:19:50 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sicked and tired!)
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To: KevinDavis

Bump for later read.


14 posted on 08/11/2005 7:20:04 PM PDT by Romish_Papist (Check my FR page for samples of my VERY amateur photography.)
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To: datura
If you need more gravity, you have to play billiards with Mars and an asteroid in order to increase its' spin rate.

Gravity is a function of spin? That's a new one on me. I thought it was a function of mass ( and maybe something else...).

15 posted on 08/11/2005 7:20:20 PM PDT by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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To: atomicpossum

You read my mind!
It wouldnot surprise me one bit if Greepeace, et al. form a new group to oppose terraforming. It will be a matter of time before there is a MarsFirst! (MoonFirst! or SpaceFirst!, etc.) organisation.
Screw them. I wanna be a colonist on Barsoom.


16 posted on 08/11/2005 7:20:43 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: KevinDavis
Yep... The bad thing about the Mars trilogy is that it started to praise socialism.....

"Started"? I thought it went rather a bit further than that.

17 posted on 08/11/2005 7:21:56 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Trad-Ang Ping: I read the dreck so you don't have to || Iran Azadi)
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To: KevinDavis

That is one bizarre plan. It reads more like science fiction than science news.


18 posted on 08/11/2005 7:22:31 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Mike DeWine for retirement, John Kasich for Senate)
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To: lafroste

Imagine a planet without any spin - or rotation if you will. I don't care how much mass it has, if it ain't spinning you've got 0 g.


19 posted on 08/11/2005 7:22:41 PM PDT by datura (Molon Labe)
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To: sionnsar; All

True... It was good until all of the socialistic crap...


20 posted on 08/11/2005 7:22:52 PM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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