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There's a fuck ton of ice on Mars and NONE OF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IT
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2018-01-12 at 9 AM UTCand of course when it gets to becoming a reality, suddenly some private company will take over the contract from nasa. and of course the contract won't be awarded to a company owned by a good friend of any politicians or anything, that would never happen, lol.
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2018-01-12 at 9:03 AM UTCelon muksd nwo shill
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2018-01-12 at 9:12 AM UTC
Originally posted by 哈哈你看不懂中文 Realistically, it is an excellent opportunity for mining. The existence of underground ice means it was probably geologically active at some point. Silicon, iron, oxygen, magnesium, probably some other shit. Mars is relatively close and can be mined by robots in a space where there is no real jurisdiction. Massive amount of money to be made on Mars.
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2018-01-12 at 9:23 AM UTC
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2018-01-12 at 9:26 AM UTCJust so I'm clear...Aliens are using mars as a trap house to sell/store meth? Just wanna make sure I'm getting this straight.
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2018-01-12 at 9:31 AM UTC
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2018-01-12 at 9:34 AM UTC
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2018-01-12 at 10:05 AM UTCCool. :/
The fuck cares? Why are you excited? -
2018-01-12 at 10:07 AM UTC
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2018-01-12 at 10:08 AM UTC
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2018-01-12 at 12:10 PM UTCThey’ve known this for a while.
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2018-01-12 at 12:18 PM UTCHaven’t read the thread but I heard it’s possible to terraform mars by melting the frozen carbon dioxide locked away at the poles, triggering a runaway greenhouse effect. The planet would warm, the atmosphere would get thicker, and the ice water will melt. CO2 could be converted to breathable oxygen.
Another problem is that mars has a very weak magnetosphere due to the lack of an inner dynamo like the one present in earth. There would be very little protection from radiation. This could theoretically be solved by placing a magnetic satellite at mars’ L1 Lagrange point to shield the planet from incoming solar radiation.
This process would take at least hundreds of years though. You’ll definitely be dead by the time humans are able to live on mars. -
2018-01-12 at 1:13 PM UTC
Originally posted by Fox Paws Haven’t read the thread but I heard it’s possible to terraform mars by melting the frozen carbon dioxide locked away at the poles, triggering a runaway greenhouse effect. The planet would warm, the atmosphere would get thicker, and the ice water will melt. CO2 could be converted to breathable oxygen.
Another problem is that mars has a very weak magnetosphere due to the lack of an inner dynamo like the one present in earth. There would be very little protection from radiation. This could theoretically be solved by placing a magnetic satellite at mars’ L1 Lagrange point to shield the planet from incoming solar radiation.
This process would take at least hundreds of years though. You’ll definitely be dead by the time humans are able to live on mars.
its considerably further from the sun than earth is, so its impossible to naturally maintain a similar temperature. i doubt you'd get even that close in the first place tbh.
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2018-01-12 at 1:19 PM UTC
Originally posted by NARCassist its considerably further from the sun than earth is, so its impossible to naturally maintain a similar temperature. i doubt you'd get even that close in the first place tbh.
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It’s not impossible, just the contents of the atmosphere would have to be a different ratio than ours. You know those “greenhouse gases” that we don’t want in OUR atmosphere? Well on mars you would want those in the air to retain heat near the surface. -
2018-01-12 at 3:11 PM UTC
Originally posted by Fox Paws It’s not impossible, just the contents of the atmosphere would have to be a different ratio than ours. You know those “greenhouse gases” that we don’t want in OUR atmosphere? Well on mars you would want those in the air to retain heat near the surface.
it doesn't really work like that pal. look, just think of the difference in temperatures between the equator and the north pole. mars is way more further from the sun than the north pole is from the equator. like thousands of times further. and it doesn't matter what gases are present in the atmosphere(which mars has barely any btw), its the sun that provides the temperature for a planet, there is no other heat source.
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2018-01-12 at 3:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by NARCassist it doesn't really work like that pal. look, just think of the difference in temperatures between the equator and the north pole. mars is way more further from the sun than the north pole is from the equator. like thousands of times further. and it doesn't matter what gases are present in the atmosphere(which mars has barely any btw), its the sun that provides the temperature for a planet, there is no other heat source.
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I feel like you’re not understanding what I’m saying. I know mars has less than 1% the atmosphere of earth, I’m talking about introducing certain gases into the atmosphere to heat it just enough to release the frozen carbon dioxide at the poles which would raise the temperature even further. Have you done much research on this subject? -
2018-01-12 at 3:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by Fox Paws I feel like you’re not understanding what I’m saying. I know mars has less than 1% the atmosphere of earth, I’m talking about introducing certain gases into the atmosphere to heat it just enough to release the frozen carbon dioxide at the poles which would raise the temperature even further. Have you done much research on this subject?
if solar wind has blasted off Mars' existing atmosphere, would any gases you introduced not just leech off into space fairly rapidly? -
2018-01-12 at 3:26 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra if solar wind has blasted off Mars' existing atmosphere, would any gases you introduced not just leech off into space fairly rapidly?
That’s a process that takes hundreds of thousands to millions of years. On a cosmic scale yes this is fairly rapid. But a runaway greenhouse effect could create habitable conditions within a couple hundred years. Also see my post about placing a magnetic satellite between mars and the sun to help shield it from solar radiation.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-01-12 at 3:26 PM UTCmeh.
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2018-01-12 at 8:56 PM UTC
Originally posted by 哈哈你看不懂中文 Realistically, it is an excellent opportunity for mining. The existence of underground ice means it was probably geologically active at some point. amount of money to be made on Mars.
your a retard.
ice is everywhere, on earth, on io, and even on asteroids. it doesnt mean shit. maybe it just mean an asteroid made of ice crashed into it at some point in the past.
