Life on Mars

Don't know if anyone else has ever thought of this... but you said that the mass of Mars wasn't large enough to support an atmosphere, well why dont we crash the asteroids into mars?

They would have to be sent in at the right angle etc. so that they dont burn up, but we would increase the Mass.

Would this be practicle? Obviously avoiding all costs.

 

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I would wonder at the expense of doing this. Would it not be cheaper just to make an artifical enviroment?

One of the problem also is the lack of a magnosphere. This is where one of the driving forces for the loss of atmosphere comes from also. (Solar winds) They knock the ions into space from the upper atmosphere. (Which was what was detected by the satellite test) We would need some method to help the core become molten again in order to restablish it.

Crashing ice balls into Mars was an idea that came up some time ago to get water on Mars before it was established that water is there but buried.

 

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I said ignoring all costs. But never mind.

Lets nudge the planet nearer to the sun then. That would heat up the core.

Got my Nasa report through this morning, it described different propulsion technologys currently being dedveloped. We could use a huge solar sail to slow down Mars, and bring it into a closer orbit to the sun.

This will take a hell of a long time, but it wouldn't have to be manned. We could just leave it there for ten thousand years, or until nuclear power feasible in space.

note:- I first came across this idea in an athur c.clarke book.

 

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I know it may sound silly, bit I think turning the ice caps into vapor would be more effective than the plant idea.

On a differant note there was a test done during the viking exploration involving methaine(sp) gas readings. They tested a sample of the matin soil and measured the releace of methaine gas, a indicator of microbal life. The tests showed that methaine was being produced in the soil, but NASA discarded the tests saying that there was an error in the data. Who knows might have been bad data, or there could be microbes chomping away at the menerals found on mars. Its not all that farfetched to believe there are microbes on mars.

sorry I got a bit off topic there =')

 

Looks like the Moon ...

Is going to be the first attempt at commercial development if all
goes well:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020902/020902-8.html

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Why are they concerned with biological material and pollution? The bio thing has already happened, so that doesn't matter, and I just make an "outdoor storage area" and problem solved. It's not like there is an enviromnent to mess up.

 

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Give us a few centuries. We will put some life on mars ourselves if need be.

 

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