LunarWire.com The Future of Space Exploration

[JonathanShelton1]

God this is awsome if i had billions of dollors i would support all this.

[mesofius]

We want Bush back.

[sweetthelite]

Can we explore Mars? Of course. Can we change it to be more like Earth? Not Likely. We should use it as it is. Build just below surface to avoid winds and keep solar panels topside. We should mine the iron and sillica, build frames, panels pipes tanks, electronics on site. travel off the surface is easier there. We could build a new spacecraft from Mars, a large ark to house life trasported from Earth. Send to new star with Earth like planet/s. Mars can be useable.

[akatsukimember123]

XD, This is Bush's best speech.

[nitebot]

Yay! Nice! :-)

[sweetthelite]

A Moon base will fail because of possible impacts from micrometeors. Probable atmosphere loss. However, travel to Mars is possibility, but terraforming is highly unlikely. Gravitational effect not strong enough on Mars to sustain atmosphere of Oxygen/Nitrogen mixture. Impossible actually. Just though you all should know.

[swunt10]

the gravitational effect is not the problem. it's more a question of the magnetic field because of the solar wind.

[beeohhski]

you could smash a few comets into mars and generate atmosphere and that would make water come to the surface take around 50to 100 years before you could live there but it would be alot easier than said terraforming plans out there already

[sweetthelite]

Impossible, the Martian gravity is far too low too low to hold any meaningful atmosphere. The planet can't sustain a useable air pressure. You would have to smash quite a few comets into the planet and then the core of the planet needs to become active like the Earths. It's not you know. Also, Water at the surface either evaporates or becomes solid at the surface of the planet. The proximity of the planet to the Sun has it just outside the habitable zone. It will always be cold there.

[beeohhski]

hey bro what if you hit it with like a giant iron asteroid from the belt and added more iron to make the gravity stronger

and if you smashed them into the side of the planet farthest away from the sun you could nudge it alittle maybe so there ya go more gravity closer and the heat would cause the water to evaporateand thicken the atmosphere

[theblackalliance]

Are you serious?

How do you suppose they would smash a massive asteroid into the side of mars?

I suggest you think more about the reality of logistics before commenting on anymore youtube video's you know nothing about.

[beeohhski]

rockets bro

[theblackalliance]

WTF!!!

[beeohhski]

dude anything is possible with enough money in hypothetical future an asteroid mining operation would yeild around 70 billion dollars worth of profitable metal a year that more than enough to buy bunch of rockets to strap onto a rock and smash it into a planet on one side a few dozen times

[sweetthelite]

Yeah, I guess you're right about that. Enough money can have us try anything. Maybe it could work. Thinking outside the box. Mars has to be nudged closer to the Sun. Strangely, if you look at each planet that is further and further away, they spin faster and faster. You would think it would be the other way around, closer to sun spins faster, but not true. Mars'

spin rate has to slow as well when placed in new closer orbit. Money could do it. You're right about the possibility.

[sweetthelite]

Low magnetic field on Mars because central dynamo core no longer functioning properly. The Planet is crippled, possibly by a collision with something large. Still, Gas molecules escape easily from atmosphere because of weak gravitational field and solar wind. If we try to terraform, we'll just throw away non-renewable resources and money, lots of money.