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- Saint3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't see what the big deal is with people trying to protect the "virgin" atmosphere of Mars. Mars is there, lets get some life on it before something happens to Earth. Weather thats human life or bacterial life - I don't care. Life is too important to be bottled here on our fragile blue planet.
Manifest Destiny, I say. - FreeAgent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What exactly are we protecting on Mars?? There is no life, just inanimate rock and gases. I think we should exploit it as much as possible. This solar system is OURS for the taking.
Nik420 has the best view on this I've seen. We have a resource that can preserve life (both human and other)and we will be better for using that resource. It is an opportunity to continue our growth. Many ask, "how can we be the only life in the universe? What if we're the first? There's life here, and no presently discernible way to prove there is life elsewhere. I say spend the money on education and technology to strive for the stars, solar system first! - Nik420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What exactly are we protecting on Mars?? There is no life, just inanimate rock and gases. I think we should exploit it as much as possible. This solar system is OURS for the taking.
I am an enviromentalist, but my focus is on EARTH!! Life should always be sustained here and spread out if possible to prevent extinction by global catastrophe. - Shroomer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"This later led him to team up with Kentucky Fried Chicken engineer Mark Deuser on similar space shuttle experiments. Eventually, Vellinger and Deuser set out on their own with SHOT, which stands for space hardware optimization technology."
Any1 else see something funny about this? - JAWS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kim Stanley Robinson's books are KING!!! I loved that series. Good on Cyborg et. al for mentionning it. Hell they talk for chapters about the careful genetic selection of species of colonizing plants, the huge moral debates around the terraforming of the planet in the first place, as well as the society that develops in that type of environment. Hell, Robinson even goes so far as to have a 'terrorist' (ok, maybe extremist) group on Mars decades after colonization starts that wants to preserve the envirnonment as is and resents Earthlings for manipulating the Martian environment.
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| - mikeruiz7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is all cool--I was just talking to someone about extremophiles on Mars--but what about the fact that Mars is "burnt out"? According to some stuff I've read and seen on NOVA, Mars' electro-magnetic field is deteriorating if not entirely gone. Because of this solar winds easily strike the planet easily.
I'm not sure about this--is anyone knowledgeable about the subject? There mush be something I'm missing since it doesn't seem smart to start looking into these things if its all doomed.
Other than that, the topic is very interesting. It's a shame I won't live to see us populate another planet. - zenghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they should try using algae in those frozen canals...maybe that may work...kinda like in the movie red planet.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0now that's a cool story
- Trepan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0as long as there's nothing currently living there that would be destroyed by introducing alien species to the terrain, I don't see a problem in terraforming it.
- paintball102089, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0when it gets an atmosphere due to the plant growth it will be warmer probably like canada at the equator i am guessing
- Massamune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I read somewhere that we would need to crash comets into mars to give it a sufficient watter supply to make any terraforming possible.
- oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I read about this in Red Planet, and a sibling novel, Green Planet. The Martians hate it, and it really messes with ecological ice glaciers. (Melting as the temps rise). hehehehe
Don't laugh, the first planet we will settle will be Mars, and it will take of the surplus humans from Terra, but it won't be enuff, and they be already have ftl drive..
This is a big deal, in my opinion, and I wish them all well. Fix it up, BEFORE we need it. Exploration = Innovation + Time/space Or was it????? Never mind..
Cyborg - x2dx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Yeah yeah...I would love to live on a planet that is 200 degrees below zero at night."
Put your computer outside and over clock it. - t35t0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You mean there's life on mars? There are red plants there?
- plays1onTV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.SHOT.com
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0""""Yeah yeah...I would love to live on a planet that is 200 degrees below zero at night.""""
Force a green house effect. Warm up the planet. The warmest parts of the planet are not that much worse than Canada now. A high of like 60 degrees.
Eric Wilson - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy **** AlbertPacino.
You submit a story like, every 2 hours lol. - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Manifest Destiny? You mean one that applies to the rest of earth as well, right? Because I don't want the US empire to be a 1 1/20 worlds.
- demosthenes247, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Manifest Destiny? You mean one that applies to the rest of earth as well, right? Because I don't want the US empire to be a 1 1/20 worlds."
could've been more :p - Calculon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, and the gravity of the planet isnt strong enough to keep any atmosphere we DO manage to create....
Plus you would need to restart the dynamo-core to bring the magnetic field up enough to block solar radiation - Shawn595, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't see what the big deal is with people trying to protect the "virgin" atmosphere of Mars. Mars is there, lets get some life on it before something happens to Earth. Weather thats human life or bacterial life - I don't care. Life is too important to be bottled here on our fragile blue planet.
Thank you. I won't argue whether it's possible or not to colonize Mars but I've never considered 'protecting what's already on Mars' as one of the reason why we shouldn't. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
excellent science fiction series. At least the scientific parts. There's quite a bit of utopian politics there too, just look beyond that. - ZombieLordzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0now all we need a a faster way of getting there...
- JAWS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^crappy formatting on post
:( - mbwilliamson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If it didn't work on Star Trek, I wouldn't try it unless it's the only way to save Leonard Nimoy.
- hoodedrobin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury is a good read about how we pretty much kill martians on Mars by doing this. But the martians sucked so it was worth it
- jutendouji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Albertpacino For the Win
- Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah yeah...I would love to live on a planet that is 200 degrees below zero at night.
- herting, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw a documentary on the subject, apparently there is some alien machine that if turned on (easy to turn on, just out your hand into the alien hand scanner to activate) the planet will get an atmosphere and start creating it's own oxygen. Once we kill the evil business men profitting from the sale of air we can turn on the machine and start growing Earth plants with ease.
If you are on the planet and a black taxi driver keeps talking about supporting his many children, don't trust him, he isn't even married. - Daecilius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This was done is a movie a while ago...can't remember the name exactly
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its all right here in print how to do it and what the reprocussions of doing so would be:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553560735
Read it if you have not...its a really good read. - ThomasAnderson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Something tells me that they're trying to terraform the red planet for lack of resources on Earth
- plays1onTV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SHOT is right on Hwy 150 in what most people consider Galena, rather than Greenville proper.
- TheComrade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0never even heard of it, and greenville, ironically, is like 5 mins away from here.
- eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0[quote]it's amazing how much these scientists are spending all this time on finding a way to "live" on another planet. Why aren't they spending their time trying to make Earth a better place to live on? shesh.. I'm all for space exploration however let's take care of this planet first.[/quote]
It goes back to not wanting all your eggs in one basket. - MemoryDump, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0it's amazing how much these scientists are spending all this time on finding a way to "live" on another planet. Why aren't they spending their time trying to make Earth a better place to live on? shesh.. I'm all for space exploration however let's take care of this planet first.
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