Because we are so good at just maintaining this rock, lets plan on messing about with another one.

(snip) good old fashioned thermonuclear detonations ... yeah, those always work out nicely.

sigh

"Despite these promising circumstances, however, it's clear that one does not simply walk into terraforming Mars."



However, I hear that the one thing Mars needs is women.

Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop.

All we have to do is melt the core and get it spinning or import gigatons of air.

It's THAT simple.

/i want to be on the 11th ark

Best get our asses there then.

apeiron242: All we have to do is melt the core and get it spinning or import gigatons of air. It's THAT simple.

/i want to be on the 11th ark

Without melting the core and creating a magnetic field, wouldn't any atmosphere were create there continually be blown away?

Mars does not have enough mass to retain a usable atmosphere.

"Even with enough time, energy and material you can create a molten iron core again. Once the core has an induced spin, then a magnetic field will become very apparent. Add a large orbiting moon, and you can stabilize axial tilt. If nature can do it, so can we with a little math and engineering."

Uh huh, if we could engineer something like that, why are we farking with planets at all? We might as well start from scratch and build a death star to our specifications.

Why not just use the terraforming machine?

Nuke that farker!

Someone. will smuggle. cannabis. seeds.

/>:-D

"It'll be what we call a 'shake & bake colony."

Mugato: We can't even terraform Earth. WTF are they talking about?

THIS.

We've already f*cked u-p our allotment of planets. Let's just keep it to the one for now.

majestic: Nuke that farker!

Oh, no- we can do something much more spectacular.

Drop comets on it. Ten gigatons of fresh water, coming through. YEE HAW

DRTFA, but spread some lichens or other self-repilcating machines on it and let them burp / fart oxygen and CO2, maybe steer a comet or two to either skip a few times onto the atmosphere or else slam straight down to thicken and warm things.

This is not impossible stuff, even with what we already have to work with. I personally will never see it. But so what? Some people think they'll live forever.

Oh sure, "Terraform mars" they say. Then some eco terrorists come around and wreck your shiat with a nano rifle, then there's farking aliens all over..it's not worth it, man.

FuturePastNow: majestic: Nuke that farker!

Oh, no- we can do something much more spectacular.

Drop comets on it. Ten gigatons of fresh water, coming through. YEE HAW

I...think I love this idea.

This is the so-called "warm, wet" period.

Fap?

uncoveror: Mars does not have enough mass to retain a usable atmosphere.

We'll send fat people.

Waste of points. Put them in advanced weapon tech and take someone elses already terraformed planet.

*facepalm*
you don't terraform a whole farking planet. You build large domes.

Ambivalence: FuturePastNow: majestic: Nuke that farker!

Oh, no- we can do something much more spectacular.

Drop comets on it. Ten gigatons of fresh water, coming through. YEE HAW

I read an article years ago that indicated there's so much carbon dioxide in the crust of Mars, that oceans formed from terraformation would initially be carbonated (and not salty).

Oceans of club soda. THINK of the possibilities.

The bubbles! They tickle my...Tchaikovsky!

Weaver95: actually, we COULD transform mars into a viable environment.

Riddle me this. Why are you on Mars to begin with?

Done in one.

apeiron242: All we have to do is melt the core and get it spinning or import gigatons of air.

It's THAT simple.

/i want to be on the 11th ark

Genius! You get moved up to the "B" ark.

It'll never happen. Mars doesn't have a strong magnetic field. Without a strong magnetosphere, the solar wind will break down and strip away lighter elements like water and oxygen. You'll be stuck with an atmosphere like that of Venus: mostly CO2 - too heavy to strip away and with atomic bonds too tight to break down.

OTOH, an atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide would warm the planet significantly, as well as bringing atmospheric pressures way up. You might even be able to walk on the open surface with nothing more than a rebreather, although UV radiation might still be a problem during the day.

While exploring the Martian south pole, we'll find an ancient structure built by the long extinct Protheans. This structure will be full of the Prothean advanced techology. Some of which allows us to create a near-limitless energy source by affecting the mass. This will allow us to travel long distances in short periods of time and solves all our energy needs.

By using this energy we will be able to populate Mars and power CO2 machines there that will be used to terraform the Mars, as well as have hot sex with blue aliens with big tits.