A proposal to make Mars life-bearing through asteroid bombardment
One user argues that Mars needs bombardment by 10–20 giant nitrogen-bearing asteroids to become life-bearing, dismissing bases and specially adapted microbes as “half measures.”
TLDR
One user argues that the only way to make Mars life-bearing is to develop a civilization capable of moving 10–20 giant nitrogen-bearing asteroids to bombard the planet and create greenhouse warming. “This will not be pretty,” they write. In a reply to their own post, they call Mars bases and microbes evolved for its surface “boring half measures,” arguing that actual colonization requires developing safe superintelligence and building a Dyson swarm.
A proposal to make Mars life-bearing through asteroid bombardment
One user argues that Mars needs bombardment by 10–20 giant nitrogen-bearing asteroids to become life-bearing, dismissing bases and specially adapted microbes as “half measures.”
TLDR
One user argues that the only way to make Mars life-bearing is to develop a civilization capable of moving 10–20 giant nitrogen-bearing asteroids to bombard the planet and create greenhouse warming. “This will not be pretty,” they write. In a reply to their own post, they call Mars bases and microbes evolved for its surface “boring half measures,” arguing that actual colonization requires developing safe superintelligence and building a Dyson swarm.