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Sunhawk
12/22/19 12:24:26 PM
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If we wanted to terraform Mars, for the sake of argument, what would be the neccessary scientific steps?

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SSJKirby
12/22/19 12:25:55 PM
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pumping atmosphere into the planet

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KILBOTz
12/22/19 12:26:00 PM
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1) Get core active and spinning
2) Create atmosphere
3) Add sufficient water
4) Remove poisons

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Sunhawk
12/22/19 12:26:35 PM
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Yeah...getting the core active might be unfeasible. I'm just guessing.

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Beveren_Rabbit
12/22/19 12:27:52 PM
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Mars is a bit small, but adding some mass from nearby moons could help heat up the core so it can hold in atmosphere.

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YoungMutual
12/22/19 12:29:43 PM
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It is theoretically feasible but honestly by the same principles it should be way, way easier to just engineer stop/reverse Earth's climate change, even if that's a gargantuan feat by itself.

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Raikuro
12/22/19 12:30:23 PM
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mutated cockroaches to prepare the land for more life to flourish, and human/animal hybrids to fight them after they get out of control
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Aressar
12/22/19 12:30:25 PM
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There are concepts of placing mirrors in orbit around Mars to reflect sunlight directly toward the polar areas, so that the ice will melt and form bodies of water, which in turn is part of how a habitable atmosphere is to be created.

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CapnMuffin
12/22/19 12:30:28 PM
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Depends heavily on the planet/moon being terraformed. But the goal is typically to initiate a greenhouse effect and it would probably take a few thousand years to complete.

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Abiz_
12/22/19 12:31:40 PM
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Elon musk wants to Nuke the south and north pole of mars. So maybe something like that.
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KILBOTz
12/22/19 1:55:06 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
Yeah...getting the core active might be unfeasible. I'm just guessing.

Redirect asteroids and meteors into the planet. keep bombarding it until its awake.

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synth_real
12/22/19 1:59:38 PM
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From the little bit I understand about Mars, since it's core has cooled and isn't active like Earth's is, it doesn't produce a strong enough magnetic field around the planet to protect it's atmosphere from getting blown off into space. We would either have to "restart" the core, or create an artificial magnetic field, both of which would be incredibly huge feats of engineering in comparison to everything else that would have to be done to enable Mars to support life.

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