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Post by karl on Sept 17, 2019 5:05:35 GMT
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Post by Elizabeth on Sept 17, 2019 5:18:47 GMT
No. There isn't much we can do with Mars. It doesn't have the proper atmosphere or even water. It just lacks very important things. Unless someone wants to live inside a spacesuit or something then they might get somewhere but it's not very productive. We're stuck on earth. If any planet is as good as earth it's many light years away so it's useless if we can't do anything about it.
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Post by karl on Sept 17, 2019 9:19:19 GMT
No. There isn't much we can do with Mars. It doesn't have the proper atmosphere or even water. It just lacks very important things. Unless someone wants to live inside a spacesuit or something then they might get somewhere but it's not very productive. We're stuck on earth. If any planet is as good as earth it's many light years away so it's useless if we can't do anything about it.
It does have large amounts of frozen water. The main problem is to give it an atmosphere. Mars doesn't have a liquid core, like Earth, to protect its atmosphere from solar radiation. So one would need some kind of futuristic device to deflect radiation. Elon Musk suggested to drill a hole down to its core and make it liquid again, by blasting it with nukes, but that's just delusional fantasy.
Some decades ago it was estimated that Mars could be made habitable over the course of 100.000 years. That sounds more realistic than the optimists of today who talk as if it will happen within the next 30-40 years.
The real question is whether technology will continue to develop exponentially, or stagnate at some point. For terraforming Mars would require technology one doesn't know will ever actually become reality.
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