Michio Kaku: The Cheapest Way to Terraform Mars

http://bigthink.com

Rather than hauling heavy atmospheric pumps from earth, the way to create a habitable atmosphere on Mars is to take advantage of its own topology, geography and nature.

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[Osho Rajneesh]

NUKE MARS NOW, AND LET S MOVE LOL

[deluchka]

yeah lets run our nuclear tests on mars for the sake of ecology.... wuhu!

[WorldofKrick]

Vote Mars as our next home planet!

[TheManofFest]

I'm pretty sure the main reason mars is uninhabitable is the fact that it has no magnetosphere.

And also the such a low atmospheric pressure that liquid water cannot exist in large bodies for very long time.

Also there's no ozone in it's atmosphere

Although apparently it's been found that some terrestrial lichen can survive on mars outside of a terrarium

[Rsavage08]

Wouldn't the atmosphere get blown away by energetic particles of solar wind, since mars has no magnetosphere?

[Euruzilys]

Lets be blunt *YouTube is updating your channel's account* Damn... thats blunt

[MegaTonL]

i like that :D

[Eric Cromwell]

Comet bombardment, all you need to make is some solar powered tugboats.

[TheTropicalCondor]

That's true.

[Yakoloi]

You're on to something... send all the stoners to mars! They'll pump mars full of carbon dioxide from flaming blunts in no time ;)

[spesheddy17]

I thought Mars was incapable of sustaining an atmosphere because it has no magnetic field. Wouldn't Mars need an active magnetic field to prevent the solar wind from stripping away any air?