I was thinking, look at for example, overlook the fact that it's a movie but would it be possible to live on mars, I know that people are gonna flame me for this but as in we work to make it a inhabitable planet, just like they did in the movie Red Planet. They used alge to create the oxygen atmosphere.
Welcome to sciforums, Sir Aristrotle. This is one that has been hashed over quite a bit. Do a search using the search function here for stuff that has gone on before. Subjects like terraforming, living on mars, ect.
I ran a search fopr mars, living on mars, terraforming, and moving to other plants and came up empty handed Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I'll try just looking around, Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I did the same search and came up with nothing. I remember there being two threads of terraforming Mars and Venus at one time. Later while looking I came upon this old thread... Here http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=3335 http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=4662 Search for life on Mars I will look and see if I can find the other one. As it has been a while since it has been discussed prehaps it would not be a bad idea to see what new thoughts might be out there to share.
I think domes would be the most economical method. Terreforming takes way too long and has no immediate returns. Immediate returns is what everyone looks for. This is humanity we are talking about here. Put a cap over a crater, fill it with air, and heat it and you have an instant habitation.
True, very true. While people live in the dome we could work on the rest of the planet. Domes composed of Titanium, Steel, Concrete, Plastic and Cadium. That still might not be strong enough... Maybe a floor of Kevlar and Pure steel poured in molten and set inline reinforced with highly flexable aluminum bars.
First design a high density power pack based on fuel cell technology to be used as air condition suits and to covert CO2 to O2 to breath. Then setup a hot house to grow food while working on a modified bacteria or algae that can grow rapidly close to the ice areas. At the same time set up depth charge to start a volcano to pump heat to the atmosphere....something like that. One needs to find a geometrical progression on the gas conversion. Plants are the best solution.
I don't like the idea of terraforming and colonising Mars. People living there would need to be seriously altered, or become weak and stupid. Weak, because of the low gravity. Stupid, because the low oxygen levels on a newly terraformed planet, it seems to me, would result in poor brain development. Mars is a big ball of iron (much of it). We should simply strip mine it or leave it as a nature reserve for site-seeing vacations.
ugh.... strip mining, is that all you can think of? Strip Mining? If you're inrested in destroying more planets then goto Jupiter...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! For all we know we were probably suppose to be on Mars in the first place, not here, after all the Dinosaurs where here before us.
if mars is a dead rock, then earth is rotting cheese with a bunch of tiny mice on it that resimble humans, hince us. On the cheese lies: 20% Who want to vomit the cheese back up 20% Who want to replace the cheese they've eaten and never eat it again. 60% Who just want more cheese and money. :bugeye:
