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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) Theres a new mission to Mars. But were 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 planets south polar cap will evaporate.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mars; needmoremassnumbnuts; terraforming
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:11:02 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: KevinDavis
Man, just wait for the enviro-psychos to start picketing terraforming...
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:13:06 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: KevinDavis
Earthlings are thinking of using the same toxic stuff already blamed for global warming here to put some life back on MarsYep, 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.
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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))
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?
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:14:51 PM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: KevinDavis
Sounds a little like a first step to the SF trilogy:
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
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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)
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.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:17:20 PM PDT
by
datura
(Molon Labe)
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).
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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))
To: atomicpossum
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:17:36 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:17:39 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: KevinDavis
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 anyThe 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.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:18:00 PM PDT
by
carlr
To: sionnsar; All
Yep... The bad thing about the Mars trilogy is that it started to praise socialism.....
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:18:35 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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?
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:19:50 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sicked and tired!)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:20:04 PM PDT
by
Romish_Papist
(Check my FR page for samples of my VERY amateur photography.)
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...).
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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))
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.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:20:43 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
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.
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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)
To: KevinDavis
That is one bizarre plan. It reads more like science fiction than science news.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:22:31 PM PDT
by
Clintonfatigued
(Mike DeWine for retirement, John Kasich for Senate)
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.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:22:41 PM PDT
by
datura
(Molon Labe)
To: sionnsar; All
True... It was good until all of the socialistic crap...
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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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