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The terraforming process of Mars, Step by step

discuss
>> Anonymous
this ain't a discussion board, newfag.
>> Anonymous
what? fuck you!
>> Anonymous
Don't worry with 4chan's furfags.

Please More of your hi-res space views
>> Anonymous
Firefly != Reality

Mars will always be a dump of red rocks
>> Anonymous
1. Fly to mars.
2. Plant magic beans.
3. ???
4. Profit.
>> Anonymous
Got from Wikipedia FTW
>> Anonymous
terraforming, a somewhat easy process.

nuff nukes and you'll have an atmosphere.
>> Anonymous
1. Get Ahnold to Mars
2. Set Ahnold loose to find alien artifact that will convert ice caps to atmosphere.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
>> Anonymous
>>240621
Nukes do not work that way.
>> Anonymous
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Mars = Arrakis

There used to be water, but the sandworms made it all go away. =(
>> Anonymous
The magnetic field around Mars grew too weak to protect it from solar winds. As a result, it's atmosphere was blown away.
>> Anonymous
>>240632
mars has an atmosphere, fucktard
>> Anonymous
>>240643
Not much of one.
>> Anonymous
>>240645
it's there, just not livable. Hello, dust storms? The moon has no atmosphere. Maybe you're confused.
>> Anonymous
>>240646
No he isn't, you are confused.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Atmosphere
>> Anonymous
>>240621
hahaha, nukes you don't need nukes. all you need its carbon and we are super awesome at making that.
>> Anonymous
>>240609
It's not a question of physical possibility. We can, even with modern day technology, terraform mars, to the point where some life as we know it (although it would likely have to be genetically engineered to withstand high co2 levels) could thrive.

The question is, do we have the will power and desire to do so... and the patience to wait 300-400 to 1,000+ years as our "slow" modern day processes work?
>> Anonymous
>>240632
The only man who knows what he's talking about. The martian magnetic field is no longer strong enough to retain a breathable atmosphere.
>> Anonymous
>>240719
The Earths magnetic field does not "retain" the atmosphere, it deflects the solar wind. If the solar wind were allowed to directly strike the atmosphere it would slowly (10's of thousands of years to even begin to have an effect) strip it away, but the lack of a planetary magnetic field would not prevent us from creating a Martian atmosphere... we would just need to replenish it slowly.
>> Anonymous
>>240600
Repost. /discussion
>> Anonymous
venus should lend mars some of its atmosphere
>> Anonymous
read the mars trilogy by kim stanly robionson for a great theoretical exercise on mars colonization.. also, scientists are sluts
>> Anonymous
We would need a way to kickstart convection currents in the core, the rest is easy if you can do that.
>> Anonymous
If it's possible for transplanted robust earth life forms to live on mars, then that may mean that Mars already has life of it's own. If that is so, teraforming would destroy that existing life. It would destroy it by either displacing native organisms out of their ecosystem, by changing the climate in such a way that native organisms can no longer live there, or both. Sucks to be them apparently.
>> Anonymous
Mars also has very low gravity and a very long year. With great effort mankind can adjust Mars' atmospherics, but we can't change its mass. Plants may be able to adapt to longer seasons and low gravity, but what would a human experience be like there?

Also, someone should use the Google Maps API to make real and terraformed Martian atlases.
>> Anonymous
lower gravity means more of the atmosphere would be stripped out to space. You'd need to aim for a thinner atmosphere or replace the gases that are blown away.
>> Anonymous
>>240764
the core anyone?
>> Falldog
Why not just crash a moon into it? It'll probably kick start the core and add mass to the planet.
>> Anonymous
>>241029
Even if we had a way to throw moons around at will like that, we would have to predict the final Martian orbit well enough to avoid sending it into the sun or out into space, and also we would have to wait a long time for the surface to calm down enough for people to stand on at all.
>> Anonymous
>>241034
not to mention the huge amount of debris that would inevitably hit the earth.
>> Anonymous
>>241034
Phobos, one of mar's moons, is already headed towards a collision with mars, although it wont happen for another 50 million years.
>> Anonymous
bad manip
>> Anonymous
>>240978

Never mention that movie again and I'll let you off with being buried in secrecy so your grave doesn't get dessicrated.
>> An Hero
Dont worry, mankind will kill itself before we ever reach the technology to make mars a planet we can live on.
>> Anonymous
Mars atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide with trace amounts of nitrogen and oxygen.

It has no tectonic activity so what might have once been continents have long stopped moving. This is why the largest volcano in the solar system is on mars.
The weakpoint in the mantle is always in the same position so olympus mons gets massive damage and hight.

It's theorized that mars may be in an ice age at the moment.
>> Terraformed Mars Anonymous
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>>240600
>>240602
>>240603

Ara ara! Ufufu!
>> Anonymous
Where are the polar caps in those pics? Also, is that a Southern ocean I see? Whoever made this is a total fucking retard.
>> Anonymous
>>241388
Only one of the caps is liquid water, the other is dry ice.
>> Anonymous
So no one else is concerned with the large number of craters caused by meteorites hitting the surface?

Fuck Mars. I don't want to live somewhere that get hits that often.
>> Anonymous
>>241409
you already do - well, almost - the moon blocks a few hits for us but other than that statistically we have pretty much the same chance of being hit as Mars.
>> Anonymous
>>241409
Earth has been hit as many times as Mars or the Moon. The diffrence is Earth is still very much alive, biologicly and geologicly, we have wind, water, plants and animals that work to obsure the acient impacts on our planet. Most of the craters you see on other planets are ancient, formed in the primordial solar system. They've just never been worn away. A thicker martian atmosphere would also help to burn up more objects before they hit the planet.
>> Anonymous
In your dreams you can buy expensive cars...or live on Mars and have it your way.
>> Anonymous
>>241414
And you hate your boss at your job
well in your dreams you can blow his head off
>> Anonymous
>>240622

Winrar.
>> Anonymous
>>241409

Stupid reply is stupid. Most of the craters on Mars were caused my meteorites from ages ago.
>> Anonymous
>>240600

1. Get stabilized Genesis torpedo
2. Apply to Martian surface
3. ???
4. NEW PLANET TO RAEP LOL!