Noone has suggested perhaps the most important factor in terraforming Mars. Why is Earth the way it is now? Why does Earth have so much volcanic activity, and the tides of the oceans? Because we have a moon. Mars' core is cool and inactive. The tidal forces of a moon would dramatically accelerate terraforming, and create a magentosphere. Perhaps eventually we would need to tow a huge asteroid or one of Jupiters moons to Martian orbit. Any thoughts?
@overusedoxymoron2003 For onethe moons doesn't play a part in the creation of the magentosphere, the Earth's core does that by itself. The moon maybe part of why earthquakes and volcanic erouptions happen when they do but other than that it doesn't effect that stuff. Why do we need tides?
@kokofan50 The Earths core and presumably Mars' core is made of iron and nickel, which are ferrous, meaning magnetic. Churning that substance is like an alternating current generator. When copper spins rapidly around an iron magnet, it produces and electro magnetic field. The moon uses it momentum to caus tidal influences on the Earths core, its crust (again tugging on it to create firction and therefore volcanos and quakes), and the lunar tides even affect out inner ears.
@terrcraft18 There is sufficient underground water on Mars that if it were all brought to the surface in liquid form, it would cover the surface of the planet to an average depth of over 30 feet. Water isn't an issue. The biggest problem is that Mars has a very thin atmosphere and no magnetosphere. The lack of these two things may make terraforming Mars impossible. With its small mass and thus, weak gravity, it would never be able to maintain an Earth-like atmosphere.
@rangeclerk The northen Martian hemisphere has a much lower elevation than the southern hemisphere. The South will remain a vacuous desert, but the lowlands of the North will have a relatively thick atmosphere. That goes doubly for the kilometers deep canyons on Mars.
@rangeclerk Mars has enough mass to produce a breathable atmosphere. The mass of a planet doesn't necessarily determine the mass of the atmosphere. A very large atmosphere would simply mean it looses mass more quickly.
@rangeclerk Mars doesn't require a magnetosphere. Solar wind would require millions of years do strip an appreciable amount of mass from the atmosphere. It is a nonissue.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Indeed, and because it will take millions of years for the process of atmospheric stripping, in the mean time we could replenish the Martian atmosphere. If we can render Mars habitable within a few hundred years which also includes increasing atmospheric pressures, I'm sure competing with this millions of years of atmospheric stripping will be a non issue.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 actualy to make life on mars possible. Mars does need a magnetosphear because without that magnetosphear u cannot have a martian base or matian colony or a breathable atmosphear on the red planet. Its just not possible without a working core and a magnetosphear for protection. So yea i dont know where u got that so called fantasy of mars not needing a magnetosphear but u mate are dead wrong. So no magnetosphear no breathable atmosphear and no mars base without a magnetic field.
As I already said, it would take millions of years for a breathably dense Martian atmosphere to be whittled away by brunt of solar wind. If Mars is terraformed than that would mean humanity is able to add atmosphere to Mars thousands of times faster than the loss of atmosphere due to solar wind.
@xgentis The radiation wouldn't make life on Mars impossible. The solar wind would take millions of years to errode Mars' atmosphere so it isn't an issue. With a denser atmosphere Mars' ionosphere would block a lot of radiation too, just like Venus.
Great, IF they manage to make this planet like earth, then we have another planet to exploit, rape, and finally we are again in the search of finding another earth-mars like planet to fuck it up.
@PitbullNL that's why I don't care what happens to humans, you obviously don't get other animals doing this, they should terraform it, but then go back down to earth. They're goanna become extinct at some point, probably for not another 50 million years, depending on how successful they are and what events occur through that time.
@MrAndersohn Yet that is impossible. We could make it's atmosphere similar to the Earth's but it will never be as dense due to Mars's much weaker gravity. We would get the bends due to how thin the air would be and without a Magnetosphere there will be no protection from the suns harmful cosmic rays. Mars will probally be used as a station for NASA scientists or as a shit refuling port but that's about it. We would be better of mining the planet for minerals and building space stations in orbit.
@NANOFORGE You are thinking by 21century mind,scientists of 22 century will find the way to awake Martian magnetic field.If they manage it Mars will have dense atmosphere like on Earth, because density depends not only on gravity (Titan for example is about the size of our moon but it got an atmosphere that has anywhere near the atmospheric pressure on Earth).Magnetic field protects atmosphere from blowing away by solar winds. Mars already had earth like atmosphere 3,5 billion years ago
@MrAndersohn It is unknown if it is even possible to create an artifical Magnetic field around an object as massive as the Earth's core. It would take an enormous amount of energy to hold up constantly and at the current rate of power it would most likey require Nuclear Fusion. Thing is without a Magnetosphere the solar rays form the sun would scramble communications aswell. I believe scienists now are experimenting with magnetic fields ect and putting them around objects so it is possible.
@NANOFORGE the only way I can see how to generate a magnetic field on Mars is to make an effort to "restart" its internal dynamo. slam a massive object into it. preferably moon sized and rich in iron and uranium. but try to do it without knocking it off safe orbit. right now I don't think we have the technology to allow us to move rocks that big, not even nukes would do it..
@3headedHelldog Thats exactly what I was thinking, Increasing the planets gravity without knocking of it's orbit or destroying it. It could be possible if we increase the yeild of our Nukes, at the moment the most powerful Nukes are only capable of blasts up to 25 Megatons. To move objects the size of astroids or moons would require Gigatons if not Petatons. Once gravity in similar strengh to the Earths is achieved, the pollution can start, but this would take centuries to complete.
@NANOFORGE I'm wondering if some underground fusion bomb explosion could "restart" Martian dynamo . The problem is how to put this bomb so deep that blast could reach the core. Or another crazy idea : heat the core by microwaves ( I know it will require immense amounts of energy , but who knows may be in the future... )
@MrAndersohn That could be dangerious, If the yeild of the bomb is too high it could blast a chunk of the planets Crust clean of which could also cause the planet to collapse with the sudden loss of mass. Mars is alot smaller than Earth, about the size of Earths core, a few Megatons would be safe.
@NANOFORGE You are right. But it will be stupid if we begin terraforming only by adding CO2 in atmosphere. Mars already was Earth-like, it had ocean ( that covered 1\3 of the planet) , rivers , lakes , rain, snow... That means Mars had warm climate and dense atmosphere. It was really like little copy of Earth and we can bring it back only with help of magnetic field :-( "Early Mars had a carbon dioxide atmosphere similar in thickness to present-day Earth (1000 hPa)." Wikipedia
@MrAndersohn We barely know how any planet's internal dynamo works let alone enough to guess how to restart it. Even if we had all the information, humanity would still be thousands, tens of thousands, maybe millions of years away from effecting planets on that scale. I doubt our progenitors will be anything human like by that point.
Luckily Mars doesn't need an internally produced magnetic field to be habitable. It took millions of years for Mars to lose its atmosphere.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 I've read that if we put on Martian orbit some big asteroid it's tidal forces could awake magnetic field. There are also a theory that if Martian core is molten after some time the upper layer of it will solidify and it'll create dynamo. Time will tell ...
@MrAndersohn The ability to move an object large enough to, hypothetically, restart Mars' dynamo is also far beyond the reach of humanity. Why not turn Jupiter into a 2nd Sun while you're at it!
Mars doesn't need an internally produced magnetosphere. Underground habitats would protect colonists from radiation for the most of their lives and a thicker atmosphere complete with an ionosphere would do a lot in deflecting radiation. We don't need to wait millions of years to colonize Mars.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 You are right we don't need to wait millions of years, future science and technology will do it faster than we think. Today complete terraforming is only sci-fi dream but who knows what will be in XXII century.
@MrAndersohn I think that is where we disagree. I don't see the terraformation of Mars as dependent on absurdly advanced technology and thus I see it as doable in the near future if not NOW! It would cost a lot and it would take a long time; but using large orbital mirrors, colliding a few comets with Mars, and introducing some tweaked Earth life we could provide the bread and butter of terraformation. All of it is relatively modern tech, unlike restarting planet dynamos and moving moons.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Mars has no magnetic field to protect it from the solar wind unless you find a way to reactive the planet core terraforming Mars is useless.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 What? Without magnetic field human life is impossible. Radiation level would kill us and the solar wind would blow away the atmospher like it did with Mars.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 'A couple of comets' impacting onto Mars will help? HOW? The mass of even the largest comets are nothing compared to the mass of the Earth & still would have no effect on producting a magnetic field as without a magnetic field as Earth'd any CME from the sun would rip any proto-atmosphere that might even be developed on Mars---besides the low mass of Mars today precludes any atmosphere sim to earth being produced on Mars!
@NANOFORGE LOL I didn't notice it :D According to NASA "fast" progress in space exploration they can build only shit refuling port there but not sent humans to Mars
@MrAndersohn it would be an extremely demanding and time consuming task, but it would be a good idea to increase the mass of Mars before doing anything else by somehow getting some of the material from the asteroid belt to slam into it.
next, pollute the planet with greenhouse gasses to warm it up, then we should send our plants and excess sea water to get the ball rolling for colonization. water molecules are too heavy to drift away from Earth, don't see why it would be much different on Mars.
@RowanEvans123 hey, have been reading lots of books on the formation of the earth. apparently, there are large amounts of carbon stored in the lithosphere. plate tectonics, which is partly powered by the heat in the earth's interior. makes a lot of that carbon available to the troposphere. so, accordingly, plate tectonics and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere are related. i like the idea of smashing asteroids into mars though. let's test it out on manchester first.
@ahannanismail HEY!! I live in Manchester, It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. What is it with people thinking everyone from the North are Chavs?. I'm not a Chav, I fucking hate Chavs, If anything I find people from the South to be more ignorant.
why dont people now just fire a big huge rocket filled with horrible polluting gas then when people first land in 20-30 yers it would maybe half way to a third of the way to being earth like
My question is without a magnetosphere, how would we be able to sustain Mars' atmosphere? The solar wind and mass ejections from the sun would strip it away.
People say it can't be done and living on Mars would change us. Well, with the way were going with Earth right now, it may be our only option. There's a saying for this kind of situation which we will not say but our children will and that is, "Adapt or die."
@COMMYCABOOSE i think we dont need to reverse global warming, just stop the progress, we could adapt to the changes very easily in a couple hundred years,not only that, we could find a way to reverse it then probably, tecnology doubles every year...in 200 years our knowlage will be multiplied by 1.606938e+60 if the current rate keeps up, in other words, pre-schoolers will be building space shuttles
@Gykw17 this is true but, 1 day all planets will be much closer to the sun than it is now meaning mars will be at the centre of the habital zone.. This wll make its iron core liquid once again and start to spin creating a megnetosphere... obviously this is afew million years away so other substitutes will be needed in the time being...dnt get your hopes up :)
I have actually designed a very efficient mars base that could be the solution.
@23Heathy12 becaws of the planets orbiting around the sun they are moving farther away at an almoast unnoticable amount a few inches every million or so years...
The gravity on Mars is too weak to hold a atmosphere like Earth's. It is too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface and it doesnt have a magnetic field to protect the surface from the Sun. It could also never have its own Ozone layer.
Colonised Mars would be people living underground in man made caves using ice beneath the surface for water and oxygen. People living there for their entire lives would be much taller than people on Earth because of the lower gravity.
not true. it has plenty of gravity to hold an atmosphere, but mars core doesn't spin, so it has no electromagnetic field surrounding it (unlike earth) and so cosmic radiation strips away any atmosphere it could have. it has nothing to do with its gravity
@ticketrider also mars simply doesn't have enough gravity to for humans to live on, even if mars had a breathable atmosphere humans couldn't live on it because there's not enough gravity. What next, spin up the rotation of the planet, yeah right.
@al55p@al55p spinning would do nothing. a planets gravity is not created by it spinning, do some research. Mars has 1/3 the gravity of earth, more than enough for humans to live. humans can even live in space where there is no gravity, they just lose up to 20% of their muscle mass and up to 5% of their bone density but still function fine, according to nasa. but on a place with 1/3 gravity, humans could survive. do some research before posting wrong info.
@ridersmvt999 I learned a few days ago that the spinning doesn't cause gravity, I was surprised because that's what i learned in school.
I never said humans can't live in zero or low gravity. Of course they can. But bone deterioration and muscles atrophy stop them from returning to earth healthy. Imagine the effects on the body of someone who was born and raised in low or zero gravity, they wont ever be able to return to earth.
@al55p Absolutely right, however manned missions to mars where people grew up on earth and only go to mars for 1-2 years, they could easily return to earth, and if we colonized mars, then those people would simply go there permanently. that would be their new home, and they wouldn't return to earth, as well as their children.
@al55p The gravity of the planets are caused by their mass, not their rotation. Gravity can be simulated by the centripetal force if you were standing on the inside some sort of spinning ring, much like those fairground rides which spin you round and round really fast so you feel like you are stuck to the wall.
-.- DO you know how old I am? I am in collage, and if you think about it, the gas in gas giants(of course) has collapsed on itself and compacted into solid material, thus being the size of pluto
ur in collage? i'm sure you meant college aka university, being a moron doesn't require an age - also don't get me started on the other stuff you've said, everyone has the right to believe in what they want
infact the earth is about 3.5 Billion yrs old mars is infact much older then earth somewhere about 4-5 Billion yrs old.if mars ever had life it died out millions of yrs befor life got started on earth.
actually earth and mars are the same age - about 4.5 billion years. you are correct, however, that mars' life died very soon after it started. the planet cooled rapidly and lost most of its magnetic field because the core wasn't big enough to produce a magnetic field sufficient to protect the planet from solar wind.
Mars's iron mantle would have cooled sooner resulting in the loss of it's magnetic field. Without plate tectonics CO2 cannot be restored and without a magnetosphere solar winds can wreak havoc on the atmosphere.
Oh my lord son.science has proven the solar system to be about 4,500,000,000 give or take a few hundred million years.and as for nothing be here or anywhere a million yrs ago son the human race is 3-4 million yrs itself.its easy to date life here on earth by way of something called carbin14 see,everything decays on a atomic level at a know rate that know rate is used to determan how long ago something died.oh wait you beleave the earth was made 10 thousand yrs ago.are you a 7 day follower?
Yes. Imagine you take a watch apart, put the pieces in a jar, and shake it for 4 billion years. Do you get a whole watch, with the correct time? No? Well, that's what evolution is like. if you think that the universe has existed for 4 billion years, you most likely believe in evolution.
lol.harry put down the bible,theres a time and place for everything.man wrote the bible and man created god and all the other gods that came befor your god and man will create the god that will come after this god gets replaced.see they call you the flock becouse you follow blindly like sheep.like lambs to the slaughter.this isnt the dark ages brake outa you shell and join us here in the 21st century where ferry tails get replaced with truths and facts there is no boogie man up there waitting 4u
@harrypotter1479 Are you fucking retarted? Everything existed a million years ago! People did, people have existed for 8 million! Altough modern man has only been around for a few hundred thousand. Venus is hot, because of its atmosphere and how close it is to the sun. Hello, dinosaurs!? they went extinct about 65 million years ago!
if you nudged an astroid out of the belt to make a moon it would kneed the rock like dough and heat the core(you,d probably need watter to keep the tidal forces from ripping the planet apart) after all its the molten spinning iron that makes earths magnetic field.
You really wouldn't need a magnetic field. The time it would take for the solar wind to deplete the atmosphere would be on the scale of millions of years. So slow that it wouldn't make much of a difference because we could easily replace whatever small amount was lost.
one day perhaps we can do this. But it is possible. with an artificial magnetic field. It would be cool if Mars was similar to Earth. Same atmosphere and environment. but changing a planet will be a test of our brain.
Perhaps, but to maintain that kind of a field would require huge energies. It would be almost easier to create a brand new world of the asteroid belt. As time increases, it would have been a lot easier. The asteroids provide all the core, mantle, crust stuff, and then Jupiter or the other gas giants can provide atmosphere and water.
I cant believe i have to tell you guys that terreforming mars is impossible. @ 1 point every Inner rock planet had it's own atmosephere. murcury and mars both lost there's because both planets were too small to have a strong enough gravity to keep 1. Even if we made an atmospere the planet wouldn't be able to maintain it and the gases would float off into space.
We will live in bubbles in mercury and only use it for mining plus its too hot for colonization. Mars is large enough to sustain a atmosphere. It has one right now but its thin. Though you're right about the gases leaving. That's because Mars has no Magnetic field and is defenseless to the sun's solar flares.
yah bye the time mars looks like this will be dead the colonized mars will have will have and atmosphere and water but it will still be a red planet and still be very hot and dry but that means land is cheap i recommend buying as much as u can cause even thought u don't get to enjoy I'm sure ur Great Grandchildren will maybe ur family will become rich cause corporations will see mars as a vacation spot and expensive one so they'll pay u well for the land ur family owns on mars
Look at Mars, completely devoid of water, previous life all dead, atmosphere toast, all and all a dead planet... Are you sure we haven't been there. ,
I am from Mars and we will never let you set foot on our beautiful Red Planet. We Martians live underground so you can't see us and our women have enormous round eyes ...
would take hundreds of thousands of years to terraform mars. and without plate tectonics and sufficient gravity, how would carbon convect and recycle? and how would we stop the oceans from evaporating into space? and... and...
The bacteria in the polar ice caps... While we have seen it, we don't quite know what it would do to us. Considering our bodies are prepared for Earth bacteria and not other, unknowns... well like the alien movies have, we could all die from a simple cold... in alien form.
besides global warming isent bad...its been happening over billions of years. to ice ages to heat ages. but all human global warming is that we shortend the time differane between it. without global warming, life wouldent exist ..
Cool vid. lol we have no right colonizing mars. We already messed up earth. Why do we have to mess up other planets? This vid reminds me of outpost 2 =P
true mars would be like Nevada or Texas mostly dry arid or sandy but with cities and some vegetation until like the year 2100 expect mars to stay a red but a habitable planet
Mercury is too close Sun. There aren't any atmosphere. (It is only on few parts of Mercury, on valleies in reverse side of the planet) When can't terraform this planet, because water would be vaporized (or freezed on the reverse side). And there are too small gravity.
Any attempt at terraforming Mars on the surface would be pointless since the planet has virtually no magnetic fields left to protect the surface from harmful solar radiation. What atmosphere that was put in place would burn off again and living out of unprotected habitats would be impossible unless some fantastic technology were created to re-start Mars' inner core a'la "The Core".
it's a romantic idea but unfortunatly our population is increasing faster than our technology and that is why we probly won't make it.
some people say religions are also a hendrix but i would have to disagree with that if it was not for religions the population problem on earth would be 100 times worse than it is now.
This might sound a little crazy but I can't get the idea out of my head. If someone can correct me please do. We need to increase the amount of CO2 in order to then increase the temperature and melt ice etc. Wouldn't it be easier to bomb the hell out of the Martian polar ice caps with nuclear weapons? Wouldn't that melt the polar ice caps causing the CO2 in the ice to spread and producing global warming. If we can do it to fuck up our own planet it might actually be beneficial on Mars.
Noone has suggested perhaps the most important factor in terraforming Mars. Why is Earth the way it is now? Why does Earth have so much volcanic activity, and the tides of the oceans? Because we have a moon. Mars' core is cool and inactive. The tidal forces of a moon would dramatically accelerate terraforming, and create a magentosphere. Perhaps eventually we would need to tow a huge asteroid or one of Jupiters moons to Martian orbit. Any thoughts?
overusedoxymoron2003 2 months ago
@overusedoxymoron2003 For onethe moons doesn't play a part in the creation of the magentosphere, the Earth's core does that by itself. The moon maybe part of why earthquakes and volcanic erouptions happen when they do but other than that it doesn't effect that stuff. Why do we need tides?
kokofan50 2 months ago
@kokofan50 The Earths core and presumably Mars' core is made of iron and nickel, which are ferrous, meaning magnetic. Churning that substance is like an alternating current generator. When copper spins rapidly around an iron magnet, it produces and electro magnetic field. The moon uses it momentum to caus tidal influences on the Earths core, its crust (again tugging on it to create firction and therefore volcanos and quakes), and the lunar tides even affect out inner ears.
overusedoxymoron2003 2 months ago
Water is under the surface of mars and a lot...
lordofspeeds4321 3 months ago
One problem water...
terrcraft18 6 months ago
@terrcraft18 There is sufficient underground water on Mars that if it were all brought to the surface in liquid form, it would cover the surface of the planet to an average depth of over 30 feet. Water isn't an issue. The biggest problem is that Mars has a very thin atmosphere and no magnetosphere. The lack of these two things may make terraforming Mars impossible. With its small mass and thus, weak gravity, it would never be able to maintain an Earth-like atmosphere.
AlamoBuck 2 months ago
@rangeclerk The northen Martian hemisphere has a much lower elevation than the southern hemisphere. The South will remain a vacuous desert, but the lowlands of the North will have a relatively thick atmosphere. That goes doubly for the kilometers deep canyons on Mars.
SpazzyMcGee1337 6 months ago
@rangeclerk Mars has enough mass to produce a breathable atmosphere. The mass of a planet doesn't necessarily determine the mass of the atmosphere. A very large atmosphere would simply mean it looses mass more quickly.
SpazzyMcGee1337 6 months ago
@rangeclerk Mars doesn't require a magnetosphere. Solar wind would require millions of years do strip an appreciable amount of mass from the atmosphere. It is a nonissue.
SpazzyMcGee1337 6 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Indeed, and because it will take millions of years for the process of atmospheric stripping, in the mean time we could replenish the Martian atmosphere. If we can render Mars habitable within a few hundred years which also includes increasing atmospheric pressures, I'm sure competing with this millions of years of atmospheric stripping will be a non issue.
curingaging00 3 months ago 2
@curingaging00 You read my mind.
SpazzyMcGee1337 3 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 actualy to make life on mars possible. Mars does need a magnetosphear because without that magnetosphear u cannot have a martian base or matian colony or a breathable atmosphear on the red planet. Its just not possible without a working core and a magnetosphear for protection. So yea i dont know where u got that so called fantasy of mars not needing a magnetosphear but u mate are dead wrong. So no magnetosphear no breathable atmosphear and no mars base without a magnetic field.
FLAME4564 2 months ago
@FLAME4564
As I already said, it would take millions of years for a breathably dense Martian atmosphere to be whittled away by brunt of solar wind. If Mars is terraformed than that would mean humanity is able to add atmosphere to Mars thousands of times faster than the loss of atmosphere due to solar wind.
SpazzyMcGee1337 2 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 ooh not unless its done right. If done right the admosphear could be made also breathable on mars in less than half a million.
FLAME4564 2 months ago
@rangeclerk The comets would ass mass to the atmosphere.
SpazzyMcGee1337 6 months ago
@xgentis The radiation wouldn't make life on Mars impossible. The solar wind would take millions of years to errode Mars' atmosphere so it isn't an issue. With a denser atmosphere Mars' ionosphere would block a lot of radiation too, just like Venus.
SpazzyMcGee1337 6 months ago
omg dagobah is real!
SoldierOfShadowSOS 8 months ago
The Red Planet Soundtrack FTW!!!!
DualWieldFTW 10 months ago
what's the song? :)
ArchaeozoicPictures 10 months ago
Great, IF they manage to make this planet like earth, then we have another planet to exploit, rape, and finally we are again in the search of finding another earth-mars like planet to fuck it up.
hurray for the human race!!
PitbullNL 1 year ago
@PitbullNL Mars will be no worse off after the human race has striped it of resources.
Honestly, planets don't care. There really is no use for planets, so there's no reason why we shouldn't make a use for them.
supertrinko 1 year ago
@PitbullNL that's why I don't care what happens to humans, you obviously don't get other animals doing this, they should terraform it, but then go back down to earth. They're goanna become extinct at some point, probably for not another 50 million years, depending on how successful they are and what events occur through that time.
ArchaeozoicPictures 10 months ago
if only we could switch on it's magnetic field, then we could create atmosphere like here on Earth...
MrAndersohn 1 year ago
@MrAndersohn Yet that is impossible. We could make it's atmosphere similar to the Earth's but it will never be as dense due to Mars's much weaker gravity. We would get the bends due to how thin the air would be and without a Magnetosphere there will be no protection from the suns harmful cosmic rays. Mars will probally be used as a station for NASA scientists or as a shit refuling port but that's about it. We would be better of mining the planet for minerals and building space stations in orbit.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
@NANOFORGE You are thinking by 21century mind,scientists of 22 century will find the way to awake Martian magnetic field.If they manage it Mars will have dense atmosphere like on Earth, because density depends not only on gravity (Titan for example is about the size of our moon but it got an atmosphere that has anywhere near the atmospheric pressure on Earth).Magnetic field protects atmosphere from blowing away by solar winds. Mars already had earth like atmosphere 3,5 billion years ago
MrAndersohn 11 months ago
@MrAndersohn It is unknown if it is even possible to create an artifical Magnetic field around an object as massive as the Earth's core. It would take an enormous amount of energy to hold up constantly and at the current rate of power it would most likey require Nuclear Fusion. Thing is without a Magnetosphere the solar rays form the sun would scramble communications aswell. I believe scienists now are experimenting with magnetic fields ect and putting them around objects so it is possible.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
@NANOFORGE the only way I can see how to generate a magnetic field on Mars is to make an effort to "restart" its internal dynamo. slam a massive object into it. preferably moon sized and rich in iron and uranium. but try to do it without knocking it off safe orbit. right now I don't think we have the technology to allow us to move rocks that big, not even nukes would do it..
3headedHelldog 11 months ago
@3headedHelldog Thats exactly what I was thinking, Increasing the planets gravity without knocking of it's orbit or destroying it. It could be possible if we increase the yeild of our Nukes, at the moment the most powerful Nukes are only capable of blasts up to 25 Megatons. To move objects the size of astroids or moons would require Gigatons if not Petatons. Once gravity in similar strengh to the Earths is achieved, the pollution can start, but this would take centuries to complete.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
@NANOFORGE I'm wondering if some underground fusion bomb explosion could "restart" Martian dynamo . The problem is how to put this bomb so deep that blast could reach the core. Or another crazy idea : heat the core by microwaves ( I know it will require immense amounts of energy , but who knows may be in the future... )
MrAndersohn 11 months ago
@MrAndersohn That could be dangerious, If the yeild of the bomb is too high it could blast a chunk of the planets Crust clean of which could also cause the planet to collapse with the sudden loss of mass. Mars is alot smaller than Earth, about the size of Earths core, a few Megatons would be safe.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
@NANOFORGE You are right. But it will be stupid if we begin terraforming only by adding CO2 in atmosphere. Mars already was Earth-like, it had ocean ( that covered 1\3 of the planet) , rivers , lakes , rain, snow... That means Mars had warm climate and dense atmosphere. It was really like little copy of Earth and we can bring it back only with help of magnetic field :-( "Early Mars had a carbon dioxide atmosphere similar in thickness to present-day Earth (1000 hPa)." Wikipedia
MrAndersohn 11 months ago
@MrAndersohn We barely know how any planet's internal dynamo works let alone enough to guess how to restart it. Even if we had all the information, humanity would still be thousands, tens of thousands, maybe millions of years away from effecting planets on that scale. I doubt our progenitors will be anything human like by that point.
Luckily Mars doesn't need an internally produced magnetic field to be habitable. It took millions of years for Mars to lose its atmosphere.
SpazzyMcGee1337 7 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 I've read that if we put on Martian orbit some big asteroid it's tidal forces could awake magnetic field. There are also a theory that if Martian core is molten after some time the upper layer of it will solidify and it'll create dynamo. Time will tell ...
MrAndersohn 7 months ago
@MrAndersohn The ability to move an object large enough to, hypothetically, restart Mars' dynamo is also far beyond the reach of humanity. Why not turn Jupiter into a 2nd Sun while you're at it!
Mars doesn't need an internally produced magnetosphere. Underground habitats would protect colonists from radiation for the most of their lives and a thicker atmosphere complete with an ionosphere would do a lot in deflecting radiation. We don't need to wait millions of years to colonize Mars.
SpazzyMcGee1337 7 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 You are right we don't need to wait millions of years, future science and technology will do it faster than we think. Today complete terraforming is only sci-fi dream but who knows what will be in XXII century.
MrAndersohn 7 months ago
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SpazzyMcGee1337 7 months ago
@MrAndersohn I think that is where we disagree. I don't see the terraformation of Mars as dependent on absurdly advanced technology and thus I see it as doable in the near future if not NOW! It would cost a lot and it would take a long time; but using large orbital mirrors, colliding a few comets with Mars, and introducing some tweaked Earth life we could provide the bread and butter of terraformation. All of it is relatively modern tech, unlike restarting planet dynamos and moving moons.
SpazzyMcGee1337 7 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Mars has no magnetic field to protect it from the solar wind unless you find a way to reactive the planet core terraforming Mars is useless.
xgentis 6 months ago
@xgentis So what if it doesn't have a magnetic field? That doesn't mean we can't make Mars habitable.
SpazzyMcGee1337 6 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 What? Without magnetic field human life is impossible. Radiation level would kill us and the solar wind would blow away the atmospher like it did with Mars.
xgentis 6 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 'A couple of comets' impacting onto Mars will help? HOW? The mass of even the largest comets are nothing compared to the mass of the Earth & still would have no effect on producting a magnetic field as without a magnetic field as Earth'd any CME from the sun would rip any proto-atmosphere that might even be developed on Mars---besides the low mass of Mars today precludes any atmosphere sim to earth being produced on Mars!
rangeclerk 6 months ago
@MrAndersohn Oh an I meant Ship refuling port lol not shit refuling in my original post. Spelling error.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
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MrAndersohn 11 months ago
@NANOFORGE LOL I didn't notice it :D According to NASA "fast" progress in space exploration they can build only shit refuling port there but not sent humans to Mars
MrAndersohn 11 months ago
@MrAndersohn it would be an extremely demanding and time consuming task, but it would be a good idea to increase the mass of Mars before doing anything else by somehow getting some of the material from the asteroid belt to slam into it.
next, pollute the planet with greenhouse gasses to warm it up, then we should send our plants and excess sea water to get the ball rolling for colonization. water molecules are too heavy to drift away from Earth, don't see why it would be much different on Mars.
3headedHelldog 11 months ago
looks like i would still die there
Dominikanlyricist 1 year ago
SPORE HIT MARS.
WHO FOUND SOL?!?!
sporecreatorperson 1 year ago
@RowanEvans123 hey, have been reading lots of books on the formation of the earth. apparently, there are large amounts of carbon stored in the lithosphere. plate tectonics, which is partly powered by the heat in the earth's interior. makes a lot of that carbon available to the troposphere. so, accordingly, plate tectonics and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere are related. i like the idea of smashing asteroids into mars though. let's test it out on manchester first.
ahannanismail 1 year ago
@ahannanismail HEY!! I live in Manchester, It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. What is it with people thinking everyone from the North are Chavs?. I'm not a Chav, I fucking hate Chavs, If anything I find people from the South to be more ignorant.
NANOFORGE 11 months ago
Quisiera vivir para verlo !. I wanna be alive to see this.
2212MA 1 year ago
why dont people now just fire a big huge rocket filled with horrible polluting gas then when people first land in 20-30 yers it would maybe half way to a third of the way to being earth like
dav956able 1 year ago 9
@dav956able Clap clap.
BlackPyro1 1 year ago
@BlackPyro1 clap clap?
is that sarcasim
if mars gets some green houses a few decades before we land it would make it more livable for humans and other living species
dav956able 1 year ago
@dav956able Nope.avi
BlackPyro1 1 year ago
i thought its spore at first look lmao
GrounderTheRobot 1 year ago
We are da little blue marble and they canz be the greenz one! Xd in the words of an lol cat
justinok67 1 year ago
it grew in size
quidnick 1 year ago
Wow that was fast! O_O
brutaka359 1 year ago
@brutaka359 its just a video not how long it would take in real life
idiot
darkrainone 1 year ago
My question is without a magnetosphere, how would we be able to sustain Mars' atmosphere? The solar wind and mass ejections from the sun would strip it away.
magog1138 1 year ago
@magog1138 Wed have to constantly replenish it or create one
mobius1234 1 year ago
@magog1138 So you think that will be so hard to create artificial magnetic field with more advanced technology?
Darko2625 1 year ago
People say it can't be done and living on Mars would change us. Well, with the way were going with Earth right now, it may be our only option. There's a saying for this kind of situation which we will not say but our children will and that is, "Adapt or die."
COMMYCABOOSE 1 year ago
@COMMYCABOOSE i think we dont need to reverse global warming, just stop the progress, we could adapt to the changes very easily in a couple hundred years,not only that, we could find a way to reverse it then probably, tecnology doubles every year...in 200 years our knowlage will be multiplied by 1.606938e+60 if the current rate keeps up, in other words, pre-schoolers will be building space shuttles
MrSporeowns 1 year ago
that would be cool, BUT ! mars wouldn't be able to maintain it's atmosphere for more than a few thousand years.
Gykw17 1 year ago
@Gykw17 Why not?
Bayliss27 1 year ago
@Bayliss27 mars has no magnetoshpere like earth has, so the solar winds have they're way with the planet's atmosphere ,stripping it away into space
Gykw17 1 year ago
@Gykw17 this is true but, 1 day all planets will be much closer to the sun than it is now meaning mars will be at the centre of the habital zone.. This wll make its iron core liquid once again and start to spin creating a megnetosphere... obviously this is afew million years away so other substitutes will be needed in the time being...dnt get your hopes up :)
I have actually designed a very efficient mars base that could be the solution.
those who are thinking wow, yes im a nerd lol XD
23Heathy12 1 year ago
@23Heathy12 becaws of the planets orbiting around the sun they are moving farther away at an almoast unnoticable amount a few inches every million or so years...
leviathin21sm 1 year ago
yep, lets colonize mars, then we'll ruin the crap out of it (like earth) and it will be back to normal again!
miniwars123 1 year ago
@miniwars123 yea mars need pollution to support life,and what do us humans do best yes you guess it, POLLUTION!!!!!
colonialmarineavp 1 year ago
Let's get a GECK and we can do this!!
cloob1 1 year ago
HI, I LOVED IT, HOW MANY TIMW DO YOU THINK THAT WE NEED FOR TERRAFORM MARS? IM HEINRICH HARKONNEN IN FB
demetrius9533 1 year ago
The gravity on Mars is too weak to hold a atmosphere like Earth's. It is too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface and it doesnt have a magnetic field to protect the surface from the Sun. It could also never have its own Ozone layer.
Colonised Mars would be people living underground in man made caves using ice beneath the surface for water and oxygen. People living there for their entire lives would be much taller than people on Earth because of the lower gravity.
BlackRaptor31 1 year ago
@BlackRaptor31 Also the people would be physically weaker as well if they came back to Earth.
zzzIdividedbyzerozzz 1 year ago
Kim Stanley Robinson
transdrole 1 year ago
if only mars could hold the stuff you put on there :D it's far too light and has too little gravity to even hold an atmosphere
DeanMalenko 1 year ago
not true. it has plenty of gravity to hold an atmosphere, but mars core doesn't spin, so it has no electromagnetic field surrounding it (unlike earth) and so cosmic radiation strips away any atmosphere it could have. it has nothing to do with its gravity
ticketrider 1 year ago
@ticketrider also mars simply doesn't have enough gravity to for humans to live on, even if mars had a breathable atmosphere humans couldn't live on it because there's not enough gravity. What next, spin up the rotation of the planet, yeah right.
The planet is 100% uninhabitable for humans.
al55p 1 year ago
@al55p @al55p spinning would do nothing. a planets gravity is not created by it spinning, do some research. Mars has 1/3 the gravity of earth, more than enough for humans to live. humans can even live in space where there is no gravity, they just lose up to 20% of their muscle mass and up to 5% of their bone density but still function fine, according to nasa. but on a place with 1/3 gravity, humans could survive. do some research before posting wrong info.
ridersmvt999 1 year ago
@ridersmvt999 I learned a few days ago that the spinning doesn't cause gravity, I was surprised because that's what i learned in school.
I never said humans can't live in zero or low gravity. Of course they can. But bone deterioration and muscles atrophy stop them from returning to earth healthy. Imagine the effects on the body of someone who was born and raised in low or zero gravity, they wont ever be able to return to earth.
al55p 1 year ago
@al55p Absolutely right, however manned missions to mars where people grew up on earth and only go to mars for 1-2 years, they could easily return to earth, and if we colonized mars, then those people would simply go there permanently. that would be their new home, and they wouldn't return to earth, as well as their children.
ridersmvt999 1 year ago
@al55p The gravity of the planets are caused by their mass, not their rotation. Gravity can be simulated by the centripetal force if you were standing on the inside some sort of spinning ring, much like those fairground rides which spin you round and round really fast so you feel like you are stuck to the wall.
BlackRaptor31 1 year ago
@ridersmvt999 But you are right, humans 'could' live on mars. Just as I 'could' do lots of things I don't because of the ramifications.
al55p 1 year ago
if we coud only get the staff of life from the center of the galaxy
FlAsHi0Z 1 year ago 3
@FlAsHi0Z you meen super big black hole of death(theres a super giant black hole in the middle...)
crambaba 1 year ago
Red faction pl0x
mrTheboy10 1 year ago
Where it says "Topography" i thought it first said "Pornography"...
NiamOfAsuras 1 year ago
take a vacation to marl lolz
coolbeans0325 1 year ago
kiki
jordolucky 2 years ago
I just hope the dude's who made Assassin's Creed don't get any big ideas with this stuff.
Jaramo1 2 years ago
Mars 1 heart umanity now ehart is Mars,,,
Clarknipolo 2 years ago
I have a crush on earth-like planets=)
remanuelmr 2 years ago
Yeah it is said that each planet had life, then the next planet formed and destroyed life on that, it is also said that it will soon happen to earth
syoncle 2 years ago
Who said that? Uncle Bubba?
chevezez 2 years ago
-.- DO you know how old I am? I am in collage, and if you think about it, the gas in gas giants(of course) has collapsed on itself and compacted into solid material, thus being the size of pluto
syoncle 2 years ago
ur in collage? i'm sure you meant college aka university, being a moron doesn't require an age - also don't get me started on the other stuff you've said, everyone has the right to believe in what they want
chevezez 2 years ago
@chevezez exactly, I have the right to believe in what I want to beleive, so I dont know why you are complaining about what I said
syoncle 2 years ago
I'll meet you on mars, you dirty son of a bitch!
zedrein18 2 years ago 21
lol?
chevezez 2 years ago
i would take the first shuttle to mars
Deathencounter 2 years ago
I was just thinking, maybe mars was like earth millions of years ago. Other civilisations had killed mars like wad we are doing to earth now.
LustGreedful 2 years ago 4
Mars did not exist a million years ago. Nothing existed a million years ago. Mars and venus are also experiencing "global warming" is that our fault?
harrypotter1479 2 years ago
infact the earth is about 3.5 Billion yrs old mars is infact much older then earth somewhere about 4-5 Billion yrs old.if mars ever had life it died out millions of yrs befor life got started on earth.
smr1967 2 years ago
actually earth and mars are the same age - about 4.5 billion years. you are correct, however, that mars' life died very soon after it started. the planet cooled rapidly and lost most of its magnetic field because the core wasn't big enough to produce a magnetic field sufficient to protect the planet from solar wind.
sarah38e 2 years ago
Mars's iron mantle would have cooled sooner resulting in the loss of it's magnetic field. Without plate tectonics CO2 cannot be restored and without a magnetosphere solar winds can wreak havoc on the atmosphere.
chevezez 2 years ago
life started roughly 0.8 trillion years after that...
chevezez 2 years ago
our universe is 13.7 billion years old
sarah38e 2 years ago
Proof?
harrypotter1479 2 years ago
well you won't find it in a harry potter book, so i wouldn't expect you to know
sarah38e 2 years ago 8
@sarah38e ah a great reply that made me smile
derrick713 2 years ago 2
lol own
FIGHTFANNERD3 1 year ago 3
Oh my lord son.science has proven the solar system to be about 4,500,000,000 give or take a few hundred million years.and as for nothing be here or anywhere a million yrs ago son the human race is 3-4 million yrs itself.its easy to date life here on earth by way of something called carbin14 see,everything decays on a atomic level at a know rate that know rate is used to determan how long ago something died.oh wait you beleave the earth was made 10 thousand yrs ago.are you a 7 day follower?
smr1967 2 years ago 2
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Yes. Imagine you take a watch apart, put the pieces in a jar, and shake it for 4 billion years. Do you get a whole watch, with the correct time? No? Well, that's what evolution is like. if you think that the universe has existed for 4 billion years, you most likely believe in evolution.
harrypotter1479 2 years ago
lol.harry put down the bible,theres a time and place for everything.man wrote the bible and man created god and all the other gods that came befor your god and man will create the god that will come after this god gets replaced.see they call you the flock becouse you follow blindly like sheep.like lambs to the slaughter.this isnt the dark ages brake outa you shell and join us here in the 21st century where ferry tails get replaced with truths and facts there is no boogie man up there waitting 4u
smr1967 2 years ago 3
ehh i nvr really beleved in god my opinion
neoquest5 2 years ago
@harrypotter1479 Are you fucking retarted? Everything existed a million years ago! People did, people have existed for 8 million! Altough modern man has only been around for a few hundred thousand. Venus is hot, because of its atmosphere and how close it is to the sun. Hello, dinosaurs!? they went extinct about 65 million years ago!
KrunchyTaterChips 2 years ago
or maybe mars lost its electromagnetic field and thus, its ability to sustain life
sarah38e 2 years ago
if you nudged an astroid out of the belt to make a moon it would kneed the rock like dough and heat the core(you,d probably need watter to keep the tidal forces from ripping the planet apart) after all its the molten spinning iron that makes earths magnetic field.
253miah 2 years ago
If they make sure Mars has an magnetic field, the atmosphere won't be blown away by the sun again
Floydian1988 2 years ago
Ooooh wow i always dreamed of living in Mars with animals and dinosaurs
MultiPokeFan 2 years ago 4
You really wouldn't need a magnetic field. The time it would take for the solar wind to deplete the atmosphere would be on the scale of millions of years. So slow that it wouldn't make much of a difference because we could easily replace whatever small amount was lost.
indoordinosaur 2 years ago 2
one day perhaps we can do this. But it is possible. with an artificial magnetic field. It would be cool if Mars was similar to Earth. Same atmosphere and environment. but changing a planet will be a test of our brain.
MuskratandRatman 2 years ago 3
It used to be somewhat like Earth, with water and plants, but of course its all gone now isn't it =)
GmanZombie 2 years ago
Perhaps, but to maintain that kind of a field would require huge energies. It would be almost easier to create a brand new world of the asteroid belt. As time increases, it would have been a lot easier. The asteroids provide all the core, mantle, crust stuff, and then Jupiter or the other gas giants can provide atmosphere and water.
CODESPEAKER12161992 2 years ago
actually we already have the technology to do that. Check it out on the history channel website.
MuskratandRatman 2 years ago
that is an 100 year process
martelly55 2 years ago
I cant believe i have to tell you guys that terreforming mars is impossible. @ 1 point every Inner rock planet had it's own atmosephere. murcury and mars both lost there's because both planets were too small to have a strong enough gravity to keep 1. Even if we made an atmospere the planet wouldn't be able to maintain it and the gases would float off into space.
PortibleRetard 2 years ago
thats why you increase its mass, direct some heavy iron meteors its way.
videotroll72 2 years ago 3
We will live in bubbles in mercury and only use it for mining plus its too hot for colonization. Mars is large enough to sustain a atmosphere. It has one right now but its thin. Though you're right about the gases leaving. That's because Mars has no Magnetic field and is defenseless to the sun's solar flares.
GReddy350Z 2 years ago
Actually Mars lost its atmosphere because it had no magnetic field. Without a magnetic field the atmosphere was eroded away by the Solar wind
If we had a sufficient power source to generate a magnetic field then we could terraform Mars
happyhadron 2 years ago
Isn't there an idea about, placing an artificial shield inbetween Mars & the Sun to stop Solar Wind?
monkswood 2 years ago
Mars my life.... from mario da naples
Clarknipolo 2 years ago
this will never happen or at least not for millions of years we will all be dead by then
AprilLuvsJames 2 years ago
Or will we
DarkBlyth 2 years ago
Havent you learned by now that everything is possible.
juggep80 2 years ago
yah bye the time mars looks like this will be dead the colonized mars will have will have and atmosphere and water but it will still be a red planet and still be very hot and dry but that means land is cheap i recommend buying as much as u can cause even thought u don't get to enjoy I'm sure ur Great Grandchildren will maybe ur family will become rich cause corporations will see mars as a vacation spot and expensive one so they'll pay u well for the land ur family owns on mars
Batibeti 2 years ago
you emo
FIGHTFANNERD3 1 year ago
im sure the storms would PWN us....no worry :3
raineko98 2 years ago
mars is most likley please in our solar system to have wirst life
mypreciouz 2 years ago
Look at Mars, completely devoid of water, previous life all dead, atmosphere toast, all and all a dead planet... Are you sure we haven't been there. ,
UMTAPIR101 2 years ago
i think we were and we lost all tech..
we screwed that planet in a nuclear war a lonnng time ago
Deathcat001 2 years ago
Yep thats what happend to mars the species there (Possibly our ancestors) started a nuclear war and totally obliterated the planet
sleinfer 2 years ago
my fav planet mars 5 stars great job
AmateurActors 2 years ago
I am from Mars and we will never let you set foot on our beautiful Red Planet. We Martians live underground so you can't see us and our women have enormous round eyes ...
gledalac1979 2 years ago
ok shore you are :D
AmateurActors 2 years ago
My kinda dream
arsjaad1986 2 years ago 2
would take hundreds of thousands of years to terraform mars. and without plate tectonics and sufficient gravity, how would carbon convect and recycle? and how would we stop the oceans from evaporating into space? and... and...
ahannanismail 2 years ago 2
that's mars then you put a picture of earth
BigBadMamaCass 2 years ago
No, I didn't ;)
Sixu83 2 years ago
@BigBadMamaCass thats an 11 month old comment but. HOW DOES THAT LOOK LIKE EARTH?
An3ggPlant1 1 year ago
@An3ggPlant1 i don't do youtube anymore, that's all i'll say, don't bother asking any questions, cuz i won't awnser
BigBadMamaCass 1 year ago
@BigBadMamaCass yet you just did ;)
An3ggPlant1 1 year ago
@BigBadMamaCass your a complete idiot, does earth have a piece of land half its size, No I dont think so.
SupaSlaka 1 year ago
that would be cool if this happened
DippinGewecke 2 years ago
i think it will
Anonymouzor 2 years ago
Fahrenheit is a fail system, along with gallons and feet.
opalen903 2 years ago 5
The bacteria in the polar ice caps... While we have seen it, we don't quite know what it would do to us. Considering our bodies are prepared for Earth bacteria and not other, unknowns... well like the alien movies have, we could all die from a simple cold... in alien form.
Agertor 2 years ago
besides global warming isent bad...its been happening over billions of years. to ice ages to heat ages. but all human global warming is that we shortend the time differane between it. without global warming, life wouldent exist ..
fortresskepper 2 years ago
Thank god someone has a shred of intelligence on YT.
:)
Thumbs up
LosAngelesFresh1 2 years ago 2
:P thx mate. you too
fortresskepper 2 years ago
Cool vid. lol we have no right colonizing mars. We already messed up earth. Why do we have to mess up other planets? This vid reminds me of outpost 2 =P
Cyanix 2 years ago
i don't thing taht the mars will be so green, they will be more deserts in the insade!
IslamskaBosna 2 years ago
true mars would be like Nevada or Texas mostly dry arid or sandy but with cities and some vegetation until like the year 2100 expect mars to stay a red but a habitable planet
Batibeti 2 years ago 3
umm no, not all of Texas is dry and arid,
LiveTreeLive 2 years ago 15
what state do u live in?
Telonelemon3 2 years ago
Beautiful video of Mars! beautiful music! :)
Ericksantana6 2 years ago
Mercury is too close Sun. There aren't any atmosphere. (It is only on few parts of Mercury, on valleies in reverse side of the planet) When can't terraform this planet, because water would be vaporized (or freezed on the reverse side). And there are too small gravity.
Mareczech93 2 years ago
I'm sorry for my English, it isn't my native language. ;o)
Mareczech93 2 years ago
Not Mercury, it is scorged
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
Asking questions is not random of stupid, it is your only way to be free. Mercury is too close to the burning fusion ball of the solar system.
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
Any attempt at terraforming Mars on the surface would be pointless since the planet has virtually no magnetic fields left to protect the surface from harmful solar radiation. What atmosphere that was put in place would burn off again and living out of unprotected habitats would be impossible unless some fantastic technology were created to re-start Mars' inner core a'la "The Core".
pbanta62 2 years ago
Do you mean the core of Mars is cold?
traductoritaliano 2 years ago
it's a romantic idea but unfortunatly our population is increasing faster than our technology and that is why we probly won't make it.
some people say religions are also a hendrix but i would have to disagree with that if it was not for religions the population problem on earth would be 100 times worse than it is now.
skilo837 2 years ago
This might sound a little crazy but I can't get the idea out of my head. If someone can correct me please do. We need to increase the amount of CO2 in order to then increase the temperature and melt ice etc. Wouldn't it be easier to bomb the hell out of the Martian polar ice caps with nuclear weapons? Wouldn't that melt the polar ice caps causing the CO2 in the ice to spread and producing global warming. If we can do it to fuck up our own planet it might actually be beneficial on Mars.
kolgado69 2 years ago
If we do use nuclear weapons to melt the ice, we would also spread radiation from the nuclear weapon.
418jwong814 2 years ago