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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElon Musk Says It's Time To Nuke Mars
Wish we had more progress on actually getting off this rock that we're on because the future is out there, not here.
Having read numerous terraforming approaches over the decades, it's amusing to see this one bandied about. I prefer the warm blanket approach myself.
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)If only there were some way to get all our excess CO2 into Mars's atmosphere, it would be a win-win.
Oh well.
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Have we learned nothing from our War on Celestial Bodies? Just another excuse to waste money on another alphabet agency imo.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Help!!!
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)csziggy
(34,141 posts)gvstn
(2,805 posts)Was supposed to bring about Cheezmaddon and 100 years of free cheese raining down from the Heavens. Alas. I believe NASA might have gotten some cooked data or at the very least, a few of them were well baked by the time the full assault on the moon occurred.
I heard that the Venusians might have been involved too. You know how they are! Very acidic personalities.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Gouda from heaven.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)I won't apologize.
NBachers
(17,209 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Javaman
(62,547 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,932 posts)Javaman
(62,547 posts)so many names on that thread that are long since gone. those particular posters used to provide hours of fun.
ahh, the good old days of DU.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Some ROFLMAO comments!
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Killing it! Good times!
PatrickforO
(14,614 posts)I didn't know that. Why the heck would we do that? What happened?
Javaman
(62,547 posts)and be prepared to be amazed at the responses! LOL
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7157339
yellowcanine
(35,715 posts)Big mean suckers.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Great food , terrible armosphere .........
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)😆
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)but Sir Mix A Lot Likes it.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Kablooie
(18,658 posts)PatrickforO
(14,614 posts)When this planet goes to shit because of their malfeasance, they will leave us to suffer the consequences and sail off into wherever.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)only people saved. I believe that is THE reason we are seeing unprecedented grabs for more and more obscene levels of wealth.
longship
(40,416 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)mucifer
(23,658 posts)it was a cute little interview.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)... go,for it, Elon.
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)chemicals.
Kotya
(235 posts)In his book, 2312, talks of terraforming Venus with a giant sun shield and crashing some of Saturn's small, ice moons on to the surface to lower the temperature and make oceans.
Anyways, if we wait 1.5 billion years, Mars will be quite comfortable thanks to an expanding sun.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)It would be interesting to see what humans will have evolved into in 1.5 billion years. Sadly, I won't be around for that.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Colbert was challenging Musk about whether Mars would have a livable habitat for humans. Musk stated that we would have to live in domes and that Mars would have to be heated. Then Colbert asked how and Musk responded (paraphrasing) "Well there is the fast way and the slow way." Colbert asked what the fast way was and Musk said to nuke both poles of Mars. Musk said the slow way was to import greenhouse gases. I take it that Musk was being sarcastic then anything.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,406 posts)It's not like I was serious? A bit of levity thrown into the vitriol of GD
PufPuf23
(8,890 posts)Good read about the colonization and terraforming of Mars.
The problems on Earth are overpopulation, environmental damage, and transnational corporations.
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553560735/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441979371&sr=1-1&keywords=Robinson+Mars+Trilogy
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars.
For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.
John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. And for the genetic "alchemists, " Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life...and death.
The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves, and friendships will form and fall to pieces--for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.
Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. Red Mars shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision.
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553573357/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441979371&sr=1-2&keywords=Robinson+Mars+Trilogy
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance.
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553572393/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441979371&sr=1-3&keywords=Robinson+Mars+Trilogy
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continued the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planets hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.
Blue_Adept
(6,406 posts)I'm afraid that the TV series adaptation will fall short of course in far too many ways. But those books are masterpieces.
PufPuf23
(8,890 posts)I haven't had a TV since 2011.
Actually had never read any Robinson until 2012 and read the Mars Trilogy, the California Trilogy, and several others. Good writer.
Kotya
(235 posts)When I posted about KSR upthread.
Initech
(100,175 posts)Bucky
(54,129 posts)and then frack the left over rubble
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