terraforming mars is a waste of trillion dollars from humans. Not to mention the fact that Mars is a dangerous place with devastating dust storms, susceptible to lethal radiation from the sun, no known water supply, no breathable atmosphere.
@StuGaZzZ1 so is Arizona. thats one of the steps of Terraforming, to assure that the planet can block UV radiation, like we can. AND to give it an atmosphere which are the two known problems in cultivating life on mars. both of which are possible.
People seem to forget the importance of atmospheres and magnetospheres. It seems that as Mars cooled and lost its potential energy from formation, it's dynamo must have slowed and become inert.
A reason for optimism is that, as the Earth gets swallowed up by the Sun, Mars will be warming up nicely. Perhaps this could get things working again.
For so many years, I was completely aware of Celestia being out there. For a couple years I had screwed around with a 50 or some odd dollar program called Starry Night Pro, which glitched out after a year of me having. About a year ago a virus completely broke my computer, which pissed me off SOOO MUCH!!! So I have had this Gateway laptop for the past few months.
Just yesterday I looked up the price for Celestia and I was all like... "It's FRREEEEEE??????"
@abvmoose87 Life is far more resilient thant you think. Look around you and youll see untold billions of years of struggling for dominance to the creatures and plants we know today, including yourself. We, life, is far tougher than people want to believe
you wouldn't have to melt the core mars is mostly iron you could turn the surface into a gaint electromagnite by useing the martian tunels that might got through where the former martel once was to store copper wire and keeping it constantly powered by covering the predicted contanints with millions of wind turbines and cover olpus mons with solar panels though difficult it's possible. Then we could get large amouts of co2 from venis and filter out the acid to replace the lost green house gases.
This is too simplistic. Mars lacks the mass/gravity to maintain an atmosphere, or a hydrosphere Q. E. D. Add in the tidal forces of it's moons. Want to terraform mars?
Start by knocking it's closest orbital partner into it. Still not enough mass....then the next closest...still not enough. Start crashing asteroids and comets into it. After about a hundred such impacts we may acheive a viable lifebearing planet 10,000 years later.
@manolethee I really don't know any others o_o... the closest is one online that you mess with how big a planet is, which star it orbits and how far, other than that, I got nothing.
I want to know how we would heat Mars up. Because if we heat it up so much so water doesnt freeze then the water and soil will have a chemical reaction and let of carbon dioxide making a semi atmosphere. Then we add plants particulary pine trees because they with stand high altitudes and little Co2. Then they'll spread their seed in the wind and make oxygen. Sooner or later Mars will be possibly to Colonise and will be mankinds first steps at terraforming so when this star system dies and our s
You completely disregarded a lot of other problems associated with terraforming Mars. First of all the extreme difficulty of adding and maintaining oceans and a sufficient atmosphere to a small planet with weak gravity and a weak magnetosphere. Its not just about pointing a mirror at mars to melt the ice caps its a heck of a lot more.
@carlsm95 I am interested in knowing how HAARP could help the situation of sustaining an atmosphere if devices where strategically placed. Isn't the problem not magnetic fields being present, but being weak due to unknown causes. Is it possible to be a lack of thermal output from the center of the planet or the mass amount of iron covering the entire planet? EMF systems are capable of generating Magnetic fields. We just need one powerful enough to sustain till the planet moves into homeostasis.
@KFGhostFace We would first need the energy requirements to sustain a Magnetic Feild several hundred kilometers around above and around object the size of Earth's core and it would need to be powerful enough to protect Mars's inhabitants....Do you know how much power that would take, more than every nuclear reactor in the world could generate. We would be better of living on a space station than to waste our money and resources on foolish attempts to turn Mars into a second Earth.
@carlsm95 Teraforming Mars is impossible and is also a complete waste of time and resources. Like you said, the atmosphere is too thin due to weaker gravity. Even if it's atmosphere was similar to Earths you would get the bends after minutes, it is that thin. Another problem is Mars lack of a magnetosphere like you also mentioned, without one of those no life could live on Mars as there will be no protection from radiation from the Sun. It would be a waste of time to try and teraform Mars.
@NANOFORGE While I am skeptical I never say anything is impossible.Ofcourse, 1+1=3 would be impossible, but things like this arent entirely out of our reach. They will be difficult and expensive but that doesnt mean we cant do it in a few centuries or less. How many people thought it was impossible to fly or land a man on the moon before it happened? There are many hurdles we must overcome to make Mars habitable but who knows what the far future will bring? We didnt have the internet 20 yrs ago,
Mars' atmosphere used to be thicker and warmer. The lack of a magnetosphere is the reason why the atmospheric pressure and temperature is so low. Solar winds have blown most of the atmosphere into space. The major challenge would be creating a magnetosphere. If that could be done, the other problems could fall into place. We could raise atmospheric pressure by heating the ice (which would also insulate the planet). It may not be practical yet, but its almost certainly possible.
@eastcoaster54 As far as I know, you'd have to melt the core of Mars. Earth's electromagnetic field is generated by molten metal (nickel and iron), that rotates at a rapid pace. Mars' core also consists of nickel and iron, however, it is solid. If, by using a large amount of contained explosives we could theoretically melt the core of Mars, a magnetosphere would form, protecting the planet from harmful solar radiation. Who knows, we might have found a use for all of our nuclear warheads...
Its beyond our current capability. Theoretically, you could heat up mars's core, possibly with strategically placed nukes, restarting mars's dynamo. You could add mass to the planet, which would in turn heat up and solidify its core, restarting its dynamo. We might be able to generate one ourselves with 2 facilities on opposite sides of the planet generating massive oppositely charged fields (we arent yet capable of harnessing that much energy). Its possible, not practical.
@elatus The problem I see with creating a sufficient magnetosphere around the planet of Mars is the manner in which Earths own magnetosphere is created by the rotating iron core. How do you kick start the one on mars? Mars is different on the inside. Lava only spewed out of one area Olympus Mons because it does not have the same type of plate tectonics as Earth. I don't it is humanly possibly with Mars. But with enough green house gas put in the air on mars some form of life could grow
what about the magnetic feild?dont tell me your going to use old company fridge magnets for that...ooh oooh oh there we go you are and your just as cheap and carless as the government itself is
We can use Saturn and jupiter as resources for energy like gases and other natural resources to power our technology even though we will be dependent.
Mars has water but has a thin atmosphere and no magnetic field.
We might solve the atmosphere problem but Mars has no shielding from radiation so we need something to prevent that phenomena from reaching Mars.
After getting to Mars cephalopods need to be among the first creatures we bring with us. they are genius, highly adaptable, and able to colonize sea and land (land being a few generations away). Once we can establish standing water on the surface - using a variety of methods - sea creatures have to be a premium import to the environment
P.S. the best place to find life," if that has any merit to it's so called purpose" would be where there is water, like saturn or jupiters moons. Common sense! Further out, yes. But chances are multiplied vastly. if we cannot sustain humans for a trip to a jupiter moon, forget the same for a shorter distance to mars. it's just stupidity! Send robotic mining eqiup. & stop b.s.ing the people already! & how does one protect from gamma????
@broodyart If you've seen human spaceships, they're plated with gold to protect against radiation. And jupiter's and Saturn's moons are so much farther away than Mars, not to mention much much colder. Also, Mars has lots of water. It's just frozen on the polar ice caps.
The only reason to try to terraform mars is for mining, & profit! Terraform the sahara, salt flats, death valley & other "dead land first. We can't do it here! WASTE of gov. money, this should be paid for by mining co's period!! People will not benifit, only energy & rare earth element providers. It's not a "frontier" only a search for profit. To which we as citizens will be monitarally robbed.
@broodyart How can they profit from Mars when their plans right now are for a one way trip to Mars. They would never be able to mine and make a profit if they can't get the resources back to Earth.
nuke the poles, frozen CO2 gets thrown up to surround the planet. introduce some plant life, boom. now you have some oxygen. pump in some greenhouse gases (methane works best i hear) to heat up the temperature, then the rest i havent figured out yet hahaha
@HeadSHOT604 well we dont have to use nuclear explosives but if we did the radiation would probably speed up the growth of the algae once it was introduced, then we would just have to wait for the half life of the uranium to go down to habitable level before settlement. and it would't crack the planet in half if they were detonated on the surface because half the energy would be pushing away from the planet out into space. it would crack in half if we buried the bombs way deep into the ground.
the way i see it, biggest problem with terrafforming mars is its like of magnitosphere. couldn't we just put a cosmic ray filter in an orbit around the sun so that it casts a permanant cosmic ray shadow on mars? it'd be easier than restarting mars's core, that things been frozen for way too long.
i personally prefer to crush something into its core more than the greenhouse effects, not becouse i'm destructive but i consider the green house effect method very superfician and negligent, if we hit the corethere will be magnetosphere, heat and volacoes and the planet will live without or aid, only then it will be really alive
SalemFU has it pretty much right; the next step would be to introduce oxygen producing microbes, after that, simple plants, after that, complex plants, and finally repeat the process with animals. 10,000+ years for mars to be as habitable as earth. Thats IF we don't find another way. Also, the planet would slowly become less habitable because there is no magnetic sheild on mars, so the atmosphere would be stripped away over time by radiation from the sun.
if only we could reach the core of Mars ( appr. 2200-3000 km deep) and heat it by hidrogen bombs (or fusion bombs in future). Then the magnetic field would appear again, the volcanoes would heat the planet ( and we don't need to build the factories for greenhouse gases). Magnetic field would keep Mars atmosphere and we could reach higher atmosphere pressure. It would be the most efficient and the fastest way to terraform Mars (if the way to the core wont take 1000 years (((( ) ...
we will take asteroids from the asteroid belt betwen mars and jupiter
and crash them into mars to make it bigger ,like earth ,the impacts will warm mars and it core will be hot ,it weill start to spin and the magnetic field will kik in
there is much better way, build alot of factories and raise up the temperature (what we call global warming here on earth).. maybe around 200 years later, the planet is ready to be inhabitant by human race.
@VeradoonKing who knows what ever lives there may not be life like ours maybe they dont breath oxegen or need water maybe they have adapted under ground who knows
@ryancolemanstudios Fuck off uneducated moron!!! Only retards like you believe in Martians and stupid fairy tales! Give me the evidence of life on Mars! Bitch!!!
@The3H2SO4 nah there are no intelligent Martians. But i mean there is that high possibility that there are intelligent beings out there so far into the universe. I mean every 3 seconds maybe 50 new earth-like planets are made somewhere. Its just eternal xD
@The3H2SO4 i agree with u, people think there is life on the planet. We still haven't found evidence but its obvious that no life exists on cold planets.
@ryancolemanstudios well the chances of having life similar to ours out there somewhere in the seemingly endless universe is undoubtedly possible mainly through coincidence. But here in the Solar System, its confirmed that we're the only intelligent life here.
Large chunks of the Martian atmosphere are being blown off by solar wind storms because Mars has a dozen or so umbrella shaped magnetic fields. Some method would be necessary to create a uniform field through the entire planet in order to protect the atmosphere, as well as plant, algae, bacteria, animals, and humans living there, from radiation. This would also protect the air itself, allowing us to rebuild sufficient pressure on the surface.
One option I have heard is increaing mars mass by plowing the planet with asteroids. Unlikely I think.
The other option is to do something called para-terraforming . Due to mars low gravity you can basically build a large dome over the planet in a system of hexagons attached to 2 mile tall buildings. this would allow for an atmosphere and avoid the solar winds blowing away the atmosphere since mars lacks a magnetic field.
@jdbubby96 if that was true we would be baking by now. To retain heat you need atmospheric density or heat absorbing land material (surface water, asphalt) or more heat. The best way would be a combination of the three.
@sockmess co2 would work but it will take a long time before it will have an effect co2 will help but we will need a lot of oxegen witch is in the caps yay!
@e5point0 did you ever stop to think that by the time we seriously consider terraforming a planet, we'd easily be able to genetically modify plants to grow on materials abundant on Mars?
@ConstantC4 You don't need to 'master' a planet. lol, this isn't some card game. It's about survival by quantity, not quality. I would die to see what advances have been made on Mars by 2020. And yes, 2012 is fake. So was 2000. And 1988.
@notessimodude actually I meant master as in getting to the final stage where we are confined in it ... get to live in all environments sky underground and water as well as surface(not as in populate , but have settlments that are economic for practical reasons) before we start living around it.
@killbot2010 the problem with having asteroids colliding into mars is that mars low gravity will have lot of the ejecta lost in space instead of crashing back into the planet.
nice theory but wrong mars cant be terraformed cuz u need nitrogen to grow plants....which nitrogen is 100% absent from martian soil. meaning no plants no terraforming...
You do realize thats like saying mars can't be terraformed because theres no oxygen? Adding nitrogen to the soil would be part of the terraforming process.
Great idea but the only problem is that the array of mirrors needed for this would be far greater than we could produce. Then You have to factor in the solar sailing effect. Not to mention space debris. Unfortunately Mars is incapable of sustaining such an environment for a long period of time. Gravity. Distance from the sun & the lack of atmosphere play key roles. It wouldn't be able to produce enough oxygen for a huge amount of time to sustain human life. I wish We could do this. But this is
WAAAY beyond our capability's at the present. The reason I looked this up was because of an interesting Dream I had on the subject. It obsessed me most of the day today. lol
In order to terraform mars first you must change the size of mass of about 25% and the obit of mars must be also change to be closer to the sun and to do this is to barmbard the planet with asteroids and even its own moon could be used also but it must hit the planet at the right position of impact to change it orbit.
That's cool, Id sell my dream house on Earth any day to move there! even if I had to live in a trailer and take a very expensive and horrifying trip there!
You're just about all wrong. They aren't going to crash anything into it to start it's core again, or the likes... the single most feasible option that has been ran by them is to use machines or factories to pump exponential amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to warm it from its average of almost 100 below to a habitable temperature. That's the first step, anyhow...
@SalemFU That still wouldn't help, it would get blown away, no matter how fast you're pumping those things have got to stop at one time, then the civilization on Mars is screwed.
This will not work, and it's not just due to the dead core (week mag poles) , it also has to do with it's size. So there's no way to stop the solar rays from ripping off the atmosphere once you've created one. But never fear there is a way but not the way you would think. We have to get Mars to work for us and I know just how to do it!
@TheDeacon09 Unless you Slowly Dragged a Moon into Orbit from 1 of the other planets in our Solar System which a few have many Moons.
PromiserOfdeath2 8 hours ago
look a new planet for humans a new era of polution wars desolation and destruction oh goody
bossx7kill 3 days ago
what about the magnatiq field
PyroMachinima 1 week ago
Wow!
projectNighthawk99 2 weeks ago
theres just 1 problems mars magentic field is gone so even if we made a atmosphere it would fly out to space :P
TheDeacon09 1 month ago
@TheDeacon09 indeed
w0jac 3 weeks ago
@TheDeacon09 After some hundred thousand years, the more immediate concern the effects deadly solar radiation on the colonists.
lamorte42 1 week ago
Thanks !
zoltanp2 1 month ago
DBZ!!!!
TheOBXMULE 1 month ago
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Why are cloud patterns from venus being used at 2.24?
silversynth 1 month ago
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silversynth 1 month ago
What about the low gavity?
TheCoffeybeans 1 month ago
@TheCoffeybeans This.
Mars couldn't hod it's first atmosphere due to it.
WE NEED A FIX FOR THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
hanyuo 1 week ago
There's no terraforming on planets with weak magnetic fields. Bad news guys, Mars is not a candidate.
bygota 2 months ago
@bygota errr yes it is the condition would if not contained be gone in about 3000000 years...
maxipower44 1 month ago
@bygota What about ganyemade? Doesn't that moon have a magnetic field?
I wanna be an astronaut, and go to mars. I'm serious.
TheBlobster1212 1 month ago
@TheBlobster1212 I think it does have magnetic field. And stick to your plans and someday you're going to Mars for sure!
bygota 1 month ago
@bygota If i did go to mars, my name should be "Benjamin Catindig"
TheBlobster1212 1 month ago
terraforming mars is a waste of trillion dollars from humans. Not to mention the fact that Mars is a dangerous place with devastating dust storms, susceptible to lethal radiation from the sun, no known water supply, no breathable atmosphere.
StuGaZzZ1 2 months ago
@StuGaZzZ1 so is Arizona. thats one of the steps of Terraforming, to assure that the planet can block UV radiation, like we can. AND to give it an atmosphere which are the two known problems in cultivating life on mars. both of which are possible.
MistaRoburtz 2 months ago
@StuGaZzZ1 Who cares? If the humans get together cash is not an issue, too bad they never will.
SpartanKratos001 2 months ago
We need to transport all obese ppl there first to make the planet more massive so it can hold the atmosphere better.
INMATE2468 2 months ago
People seem to forget the importance of atmospheres and magnetospheres. It seems that as Mars cooled and lost its potential energy from formation, it's dynamo must have slowed and become inert.
A reason for optimism is that, as the Earth gets swallowed up by the Sun, Mars will be warming up nicely. Perhaps this could get things working again.
The future's bright, the future's orange..
deluxmoore 3 months ago
For so many years, I was completely aware of Celestia being out there. For a couple years I had screwed around with a 50 or some odd dollar program called Starry Night Pro, which glitched out after a year of me having. About a year ago a virus completely broke my computer, which pissed me off SOOO MUCH!!! So I have had this Gateway laptop for the past few months.
Just yesterday I looked up the price for Celestia and I was all like... "It's FRREEEEEE??????"
What a face-palm moment!
OfolenWS 3 months ago
OH HELL YEAH WE HAVE NOW ANOTHER PLANET TO DESTROY :P
antoniojonino 3 months ago
@antoniojonino Destroy what? There was never lifeforms in those planets.
SpartanKratos001 2 months ago
How do you solve the gravity problem? Make the planet denser, but how?
abvmoose87 4 months ago
@abvmoose87 Life is far more resilient thant you think. Look around you and youll see untold billions of years of struggling for dominance to the creatures and plants we know today, including yourself. We, life, is far tougher than people want to believe
overusedoxymoron2003 3 months ago
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@overusedoxymoron2003 In other words you have no solution
abvmoose87 3 months ago
did you make them how
TheSonic1685 4 months ago
were are te space stations
TheSonic1685 4 months ago
Once we terraform mars, we will no longer be seen as destroyers of life, destroyers of ecosystems, but the seed carriers of life.
curingaging00 4 months ago
I think inhabitting Mars will be one of the smartest moves humanity made (in survival vise)
PanzarMetal 4 months ago
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blooheat 5 months ago
how do i install this add-on i read the rad me there no good help
primekid77 5 months ago
this wouldnt work also how do you do this in celestia?
garuga0777 5 months ago
this wouldnt work
garuga0777 5 months ago
Tell me how to do that in celestia. thats so cool
funnyjunkvmkman 5 months ago
Not content with fucking up his own planet man strides boldly forth and fucks up as many other planets as he possibly can.
chanctonbury63 5 months ago
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emlmm88 6 months ago
Dragon Ball Z music FTW
rpsmith014 6 months ago
The big problem is how we can get the nitrogen for the martian atmosphere, becouse without it terrestrial live wouldnt have possibilities of survive
squallo9 6 months ago
you wouldn't have to melt the core mars is mostly iron you could turn the surface into a gaint electromagnite by useing the martian tunels that might got through where the former martel once was to store copper wire and keeping it constantly powered by covering the predicted contanints with millions of wind turbines and cover olpus mons with solar panels though difficult it's possible. Then we could get large amouts of co2 from venis and filter out the acid to replace the lost green house gases.
dillidar6 8 months ago
Even though we can terraform Mars, we would have the same system and mentality in Earth. Nothing's changed.
Xjreme18 8 months ago
This is too simplistic. Mars lacks the mass/gravity to maintain an atmosphere, or a hydrosphere Q. E. D. Add in the tidal forces of it's moons. Want to terraform mars?
Start by knocking it's closest orbital partner into it. Still not enough mass....then the next closest...still not enough. Start crashing asteroids and comets into it. After about a hundred such impacts we may acheive a viable lifebearing planet 10,000 years later.
NotaChewToy 8 months ago
Melting Mars Polar caps won't give you water. It'll give you even more Co2 (Which Mars is 98% of)
SniperViper1000 9 months ago
Why does the human race need to survive?
rob741258 9 months ago
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@rob741258 Because it wants to.
Salien1999 9 months ago
What is the name that application or game to terraform planets? Because I want to download can anyone tell me please?
manolethee 9 months ago
@manolethee You can terraform planets in Spore, but that's when you get to the space stage and still it isn't the only thing.
Salien1999 9 months ago
@Salien1999 I know!
manolethee 7 months ago
@manolethee I really don't know any others o_o... the closest is one online that you mess with how big a planet is, which star it orbits and how far, other than that, I got nothing.
Salien1999 7 months ago
I want to know how we would heat Mars up. Because if we heat it up so much so water doesnt freeze then the water and soil will have a chemical reaction and let of carbon dioxide making a semi atmosphere. Then we add plants particulary pine trees because they with stand high altitudes and little Co2. Then they'll spread their seed in the wind and make oxygen. Sooner or later Mars will be possibly to Colonise and will be mankinds first steps at terraforming so when this star system dies and our s
aliencory 10 months ago
Heating polarcaps.... nope that wont do you any good, you need to plant factories on mars and start poluting.
Spacefrisian 10 months ago
we degenerate fastbetter hurry up.
and with this shit economy it doesnt look like it
Thys93 10 months ago
Haha DBZ music FTW!!!
gibsonstrat66 10 months ago 7
and how long do you have to those mirrors for?
shakiin000 11 months ago
Very good! You should make a Terraforming Venus as well.
secrecyXable 11 months ago
Holy Crap! It's the music from the Buu saga of Dragonball Z.
DrN3xus 11 months ago
WTF program/game is this ?
GepardoSnaiperis 1 year ago
You completely disregarded a lot of other problems associated with terraforming Mars. First of all the extreme difficulty of adding and maintaining oceans and a sufficient atmosphere to a small planet with weak gravity and a weak magnetosphere. Its not just about pointing a mirror at mars to melt the ice caps its a heck of a lot more.
carlsm95 1 year ago
@carlsm95 I am interested in knowing how HAARP could help the situation of sustaining an atmosphere if devices where strategically placed. Isn't the problem not magnetic fields being present, but being weak due to unknown causes. Is it possible to be a lack of thermal output from the center of the planet or the mass amount of iron covering the entire planet? EMF systems are capable of generating Magnetic fields. We just need one powerful enough to sustain till the planet moves into homeostasis.
KFGhostFace 11 months ago
@KFGhostFace We would first need the energy requirements to sustain a Magnetic Feild several hundred kilometers around above and around object the size of Earth's core and it would need to be powerful enough to protect Mars's inhabitants....Do you know how much power that would take, more than every nuclear reactor in the world could generate. We would be better of living on a space station than to waste our money and resources on foolish attempts to turn Mars into a second Earth.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
@carlsm95 Teraforming Mars is impossible and is also a complete waste of time and resources. Like you said, the atmosphere is too thin due to weaker gravity. Even if it's atmosphere was similar to Earths you would get the bends after minutes, it is that thin. Another problem is Mars lack of a magnetosphere like you also mentioned, without one of those no life could live on Mars as there will be no protection from radiation from the Sun. It would be a waste of time to try and teraform Mars.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
@NANOFORGE While I am skeptical I never say anything is impossible.Ofcourse, 1+1=3 would be impossible, but things like this arent entirely out of our reach. They will be difficult and expensive but that doesnt mean we cant do it in a few centuries or less. How many people thought it was impossible to fly or land a man on the moon before it happened? There are many hurdles we must overcome to make Mars habitable but who knows what the far future will bring? We didnt have the internet 20 yrs ago,
carlsm95 11 months ago
@NANOFORGE
Mars' atmosphere used to be thicker and warmer. The lack of a magnetosphere is the reason why the atmospheric pressure and temperature is so low. Solar winds have blown most of the atmosphere into space. The major challenge would be creating a magnetosphere. If that could be done, the other problems could fall into place. We could raise atmospheric pressure by heating the ice (which would also insulate the planet). It may not be practical yet, but its almost certainly possible.
elatus 11 months ago 24
@elatus if you watch the movie total recall they do that in it they heat up all the ice to create a atmosphere
pop11123 11 months ago
@elatus how would one create a magneto sphere?
eastcoaster54 8 months ago
@eastcoaster54 As far as I know, you'd have to melt the core of Mars. Earth's electromagnetic field is generated by molten metal (nickel and iron), that rotates at a rapid pace. Mars' core also consists of nickel and iron, however, it is solid. If, by using a large amount of contained explosives we could theoretically melt the core of Mars, a magnetosphere would form, protecting the planet from harmful solar radiation. Who knows, we might have found a use for all of our nuclear warheads...
SMMsideproject 8 months ago
@eastcoaster54
Its beyond our current capability. Theoretically, you could heat up mars's core, possibly with strategically placed nukes, restarting mars's dynamo. You could add mass to the planet, which would in turn heat up and solidify its core, restarting its dynamo. We might be able to generate one ourselves with 2 facilities on opposite sides of the planet generating massive oppositely charged fields (we arent yet capable of harnessing that much energy). Its possible, not practical.
elatus 7 months ago
@elatus You are absolutely right!
Lineage231 4 months ago
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@elatus The problem I see with creating a sufficient magnetosphere around the planet of Mars is the manner in which Earths own magnetosphere is created by the rotating iron core. How do you kick start the one on mars? Mars is different on the inside. Lava only spewed out of one area Olympus Mons because it does not have the same type of plate tectonics as Earth. I don't it is humanly possibly with Mars. But with enough green house gas put in the air on mars some form of life could grow
SnifferOfPuss69 2 months ago
@elatus I totally agree.
bygota 2 months ago
what about the magnetic feild?dont tell me your going to use old company fridge magnets for that...ooh oooh oh there we go you are and your just as cheap and carless as the government itself is
Killuminati1blood 1 year ago
and gravity?
secrecyXable 1 year ago
yeah! lets ruin another planet!
viktor612 1 year ago
Love the DBZ music
Tekkenfreek234 1 year ago
that wouldn't work because the core is not activated and the co2 of the caps would go into space or be frozen again
garuga0777 1 year ago
We can use Saturn and jupiter as resources for energy like gases and other natural resources to power our technology even though we will be dependent.
Mars has water but has a thin atmosphere and no magnetic field.
We might solve the atmosphere problem but Mars has no shielding from radiation so we need something to prevent that phenomena from reaching Mars.
hhamor 1 year ago
What computer program is this?
Csnyder61 1 year ago
After getting to Mars cephalopods need to be among the first creatures we bring with us. they are genius, highly adaptable, and able to colonize sea and land (land being a few generations away). Once we can establish standing water on the surface - using a variety of methods - sea creatures have to be a premium import to the environment
Craigipedia 1 year ago
Where did you get the NorthLaser?
BlossomWolf5 1 year ago
P.S. the best place to find life," if that has any merit to it's so called purpose" would be where there is water, like saturn or jupiters moons. Common sense! Further out, yes. But chances are multiplied vastly. if we cannot sustain humans for a trip to a jupiter moon, forget the same for a shorter distance to mars. it's just stupidity! Send robotic mining eqiup. & stop b.s.ing the people already! & how does one protect from gamma????
broodyart 1 year ago
@broodyart If you've seen human spaceships, they're plated with gold to protect against radiation. And jupiter's and Saturn's moons are so much farther away than Mars, not to mention much much colder. Also, Mars has lots of water. It's just frozen on the polar ice caps.
toadsEATbugs 1 year ago
The only reason to try to terraform mars is for mining, & profit! Terraform the sahara, salt flats, death valley & other "dead land first. We can't do it here! WASTE of gov. money, this should be paid for by mining co's period!! People will not benifit, only energy & rare earth element providers. It's not a "frontier" only a search for profit. To which we as citizens will be monitarally robbed.
broodyart 1 year ago
@broodyart How can they profit from Mars when their plans right now are for a one way trip to Mars. They would never be able to mine and make a profit if they can't get the resources back to Earth.
ccrg109 1 year ago
DBZ music ftw
VeryOxygen 1 year ago
Will Mars's gravity even hold a water vapor atmosphere?
^Key question
R0ugeProductions 1 year ago
@R0ugeProductions Yes it will.
The3H2SO4 1 year ago
nuke the poles, frozen CO2 gets thrown up to surround the planet. introduce some plant life, boom. now you have some oxygen. pump in some greenhouse gases (methane works best i hear) to heat up the temperature, then the rest i havent figured out yet hahaha
madmarine2010 1 year ago
@madmarine2010 hhahahaha what about the radiation buddy and if we did that we would crack the planet in half...
HeadSHOT604 1 year ago
@HeadSHOT604 well we dont have to use nuclear explosives but if we did the radiation would probably speed up the growth of the algae once it was introduced, then we would just have to wait for the half life of the uranium to go down to habitable level before settlement. and it would't crack the planet in half if they were detonated on the surface because half the energy would be pushing away from the planet out into space. it would crack in half if we buried the bombs way deep into the ground.
madmarine2010 1 year ago
@madmarine2010 true true but its just too risky :/ it would likely be the last resort
HeadSHOT604 1 year ago
the way i see it, biggest problem with terrafforming mars is its like of magnitosphere. couldn't we just put a cosmic ray filter in an orbit around the sun so that it casts a permanant cosmic ray shadow on mars? it'd be easier than restarting mars's core, that things been frozen for way too long.
rocksteadyls 1 year ago
2721 years? WTF?
JackOfBlades434 1 year ago
Bruce Faulconer music is the shit
StateCCM 1 year ago
i personally prefer to crush something into its core more than the greenhouse effects, not becouse i'm destructive but i consider the green house effect method very superfician and negligent, if we hit the corethere will be magnetosphere, heat and volacoes and the planet will live without or aid, only then it will be really alive
hori873 1 year ago
SalemFU has it pretty much right; the next step would be to introduce oxygen producing microbes, after that, simple plants, after that, complex plants, and finally repeat the process with animals. 10,000+ years for mars to be as habitable as earth. Thats IF we don't find another way. Also, the planet would slowly become less habitable because there is no magnetic sheild on mars, so the atmosphere would be stripped away over time by radiation from the sun.
XxD1EAN0TH3RD4YxX 1 year ago
if only we could reach the core of Mars ( appr. 2200-3000 km deep) and heat it by hidrogen bombs (or fusion bombs in future). Then the magnetic field would appear again, the volcanoes would heat the planet ( and we don't need to build the factories for greenhouse gases). Magnetic field would keep Mars atmosphere and we could reach higher atmosphere pressure. It would be the most efficient and the fastest way to terraform Mars (if the way to the core wont take 1000 years (((( ) ...
MrAndersohn 1 year ago
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MrAndersohn 1 year ago
we will take asteroids from the asteroid belt betwen mars and jupiter
and crash them into mars to make it bigger ,like earth ,the impacts will warm mars and it core will be hot ,it weill start to spin and the magnetic field will kik in
this is the way it wil be teraformed
georgel19841 1 year ago
there is much better way, build alot of factories and raise up the temperature (what we call global warming here on earth).. maybe around 200 years later, the planet is ready to be inhabitant by human race.
enzemdragon 1 year ago
Mars doesnt have magnetic field...that mirror will keep melting water and the sun will dry it out right away.
ArticMuse 1 year ago
all this by 2930!
iJunkizz 1 year ago
2001 spacestation
gmosphere 1 year ago
Dragonballz music? :D
Lightyagami121 1 year ago
that shouldnt be for humans if it was real we would fuck it up like we did hear i meen let mars evolve on its own
TheWaferbaby 1 year ago
@TheWaferbaby
That barren landscape isn't going to evolve anything on its own....
VeradoonKing 1 year ago
@VeradoonKing who knows what ever lives there may not be life like ours maybe they dont breath oxegen or need water maybe they have adapted under ground who knows
TheWaferbaby 1 year ago
@TheWaferbaby
Agreed. If we find out that there's no life though, then terraforming's the best idea.
VeradoonKing 1 year ago
@VeradoonKing I give it a 101% chance there's other life out there.
And Intelligent life.
ryancolemanstudios 1 year ago
@ryancolemanstudios You are retarded!
The3H2SO4 1 year ago
@The3H2SO4 And your a homo.
There's other life out there.
ryancolemanstudios 1 year ago
@ryancolemanstudios Fuck off uneducated moron!!! Only retards like you believe in Martians and stupid fairy tales! Give me the evidence of life on Mars! Bitch!!!
The3H2SO4 1 year ago
@The3H2SO4 there IS life. But of course theyre just microorganisms.
ZacEffron 1 year ago
@ZacEffron Microorganisms probably...but we are not confirmed this yet. And about intelligent Martians...gimme a break!
The3H2SO4 1 year ago
@The3H2SO4 nah there are no intelligent Martians. But i mean there is that high possibility that there are intelligent beings out there so far into the universe. I mean every 3 seconds maybe 50 new earth-like planets are made somewhere. Its just eternal xD
ZacEffron 1 year ago
@The3H2SO4 i agree with u, people think there is life on the planet. We still haven't found evidence but its obvious that no life exists on cold planets.
Augustow09 1 year ago
@ryancolemanstudios well the chances of having life similar to ours out there somewhere in the seemingly endless universe is undoubtedly possible mainly through coincidence. But here in the Solar System, its confirmed that we're the only intelligent life here.
ZacEffron 1 year ago
Sorry to burst your atmospheric bubble but without a magnetic field to bounce solar winds off all the atmosphere would end up being "washed" away
Pulsarduke 1 year ago
Large chunks of the Martian atmosphere are being blown off by solar wind storms because Mars has a dozen or so umbrella shaped magnetic fields. Some method would be necessary to create a uniform field through the entire planet in order to protect the atmosphere, as well as plant, algae, bacteria, animals, and humans living there, from radiation. This would also protect the air itself, allowing us to rebuild sufficient pressure on the surface.
SeacoastLiberty 1 year ago
One option I have heard is increaing mars mass by plowing the planet with asteroids. Unlikely I think.
The other option is to do something called para-terraforming . Due to mars low gravity you can basically build a large dome over the planet in a system of hexagons attached to 2 mile tall buildings. this would allow for an atmosphere and avoid the solar winds blowing away the atmosphere since mars lacks a magnetic field.
nessik13 1 year ago
mars would be heaven for noobs on runescape because there is lots of iron!
DeclanRyan96 1 year ago
we could create cities on mars but they would have to be shielded because there is no iron in mars thus radiation would kill us no magnetic field
seminoleboy96 1 year ago
@seminoleboy96 you mean iron core? there's plenty of iron on mars ;)
dayati 1 year ago
terraforming mars is really easy. just need a lot of fucking money. and it would take a good 500 years to start becoming stable.
xXhighwolfXx 1 year ago
all you need to heat the planet is more co2, oxegen is in the ice caps!
jdbubby96 1 year ago
@jdbubby96 if that was true we would be baking by now. To retain heat you need atmospheric density or heat absorbing land material (surface water, asphalt) or more heat. The best way would be a combination of the three.
sockmess 1 year ago
@sockmess co2 would work but it will take a long time before it will have an effect co2 will help but we will need a lot of oxegen witch is in the caps yay!
jdbubby96 1 year ago
What software is this?...
InstrumentalGamer 1 year ago
this music reminds me of dragon ball z
vaultofknowledge 1 year ago
Dragon Ball z theme music
cybersurfer79 1 year ago
@e5point0 did you ever stop to think that by the time we seriously consider terraforming a planet, we'd easily be able to genetically modify plants to grow on materials abundant on Mars?
npateman 1 year ago
@kumoryu001 the amount of water on earth stays constant. If anything we need more of it, let's not go sending it off to Mars pls.
npateman 1 year ago
@kumoryu001 the amount of water on earth d
npateman 1 year ago
If this really happens, We need to move to Mars before Asteroid Apophis!
GranTurismo360 1 year ago
terraforming mars will be only useful if it could be one in ten or so years.
after a while it will be possible to adopt civilization to live in the barren conditions.
but we didn't master the earth yet.
ConstantC4 1 year ago
@ConstantC4 You don't need to 'master' a planet. lol, this isn't some card game. It's about survival by quantity, not quality. I would die to see what advances have been made on Mars by 2020. And yes, 2012 is fake. So was 2000. And 1988.
notessimodude 1 year ago
@notessimodude actually I meant master as in getting to the final stage where we are confined in it ... get to live in all environments sky underground and water as well as surface(not as in populate , but have settlments that are economic for practical reasons) before we start living around it.
ConstantC4 1 year ago
would all the iron on the surface make the water undrinkable?
xkeltoix 1 year ago
need volcano's for the CO2 levels to be natural and have the planet sustain its own temp of + 41* average.
ozricstormbringer 1 year ago
START THE REACTOR QUAID!
tucsonsteven 1 year ago
Nice background music, Dragonball Z FTW!!!
MagnitudePerson 1 year ago
the nitrogen a long with amonia and small amounts of co2 would be added to the atmosphere by redirecting asteroids into a collision course with mars.
this would also heat up the average temp.
killbot2010 1 year ago
@killbot2010 the problem with having asteroids colliding into mars is that mars low gravity will have lot of the ejecta lost in space instead of crashing back into the planet.
sockmess 1 year ago
Whats with the Dragonball Z music?
darthroden 2 years ago
nice theory but wrong mars cant be terraformed cuz u need nitrogen to grow plants....which nitrogen is 100% absent from martian soil. meaning no plants no terraforming...
e5point0 2 years ago
You do realize thats like saying mars can't be terraformed because theres no oxygen? Adding nitrogen to the soil would be part of the terraforming process.
Kandene 2 years ago
There is nitrogen on Mars. Not very much, but still.
A11ex 2 years ago
I wish to be a Mars settler !!!!!!
ovniforos 2 years ago 5
@ovniforos me too lol
Lazerkatz0r0Strikin 1 year ago
Great idea but the only problem is that the array of mirrors needed for this would be far greater than we could produce. Then You have to factor in the solar sailing effect. Not to mention space debris. Unfortunately Mars is incapable of sustaining such an environment for a long period of time. Gravity. Distance from the sun & the lack of atmosphere play key roles. It wouldn't be able to produce enough oxygen for a huge amount of time to sustain human life. I wish We could do this. But this is
wingnut4427 2 years ago
WAAAY beyond our capability's at the present. The reason I looked this up was because of an interesting Dream I had on the subject. It obsessed me most of the day today. lol
wingnut4427 2 years ago
@wingnut4427
dont forget that u need nitrogen to grow plants and mars has no nitrogen in its soil
e5point0 2 years ago
indeed. There are many more variables that We don't even know about as well.
wingnut4427 2 years ago
wut game is dat?
Banjokazooie42 2 years ago
I wonder what the second generation Martian human accents will be like ?
CMob09 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Why would you want to do this ? Why not leave thingsas they are surely it was made by God to be that way ?
CMob09 2 years ago
To: @CMob09
If that was the case, then why are you not still swinging around in the trees? God has given us a brain. That brain is there to be used, not to say:
Why not leave things as they are...!
Finkelgruber 2 years ago
In order to terraform mars first you must change the size of mass of about 25% and the obit of mars must be also change to be closer to the sun and to do this is to barmbard the planet with asteroids and even its own moon could be used also but it must hit the planet at the right position of impact to change it orbit.
joruss6676 2 years ago
That's cool, Id sell my dream house on Earth any day to move there! even if I had to live in a trailer and take a very expensive and horrifying trip there!
Andrewmcmelonse 2 years ago
on a programme about space they said if we use greenhouse on mars to thicken the atmosphere then add plants for oxygen mars will look like earth
megasuperspy500 2 years ago 2
don't forget we would have to add a magnetic field also or else all that hard work would be forr nothing lol
IrishClanKing 2 years ago
You're just about all wrong. They aren't going to crash anything into it to start it's core again, or the likes... the single most feasible option that has been ran by them is to use machines or factories to pump exponential amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to warm it from its average of almost 100 below to a habitable temperature. That's the first step, anyhow...
SalemFU 2 years ago 15
@SalemFU so theres guna do on purpose what we did on accident? and its acually for a good cause?
nolifeATALL23 1 year ago
@SalemFU That still wouldn't help, it would get blown away, no matter how fast you're pumping those things have got to stop at one time, then the civilization on Mars is screwed.
Salien1999 1 year ago
@SalemFU Crash a rocket full of greenhouse gases. :D
SpraxIAKS 1 year ago
Ahh yessss u WERE right...........
NASA is planning to send a asteroid to crash into mars in order to RE-Melt the core!;)
funnybee2 2 years ago
This will not work, and it's not just due to the dead core (week mag poles) , it also has to do with it's size. So there's no way to stop the solar rays from ripping off the atmosphere once you've created one. But never fear there is a way but not the way you would think. We have to get Mars to work for us and I know just how to do it!
libral3 2 years ago
how do you propose to do that? im interested in this sort of stuff :D
OLawson07 2 years ago