Mars - Not as dead as we thought

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Mars - Not as dead as we thought

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Fenix, Jan 16, 2009.

  1. Fenix

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    Craaaaazy. Could be some geological phenom, buuuuut....Aliens?
     
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    ijffdrie Lord of Spam

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    if we discover bacteria on mars, we will move it closer to the sun so the water isnt frozen anymore and the surface is habitable


    and then we watch evolution at work
     
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    lenga no, we will strip mars of what ever metal it has then leave it to its fate.
     
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    Mars is inside the habitable zone for our star, it's atmosphere just isn't thick enough to keep the heat in. We should transport the CO2 from Earth, to Mars.
     
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    two birds with one stone, no?
     
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    Exactly. Our planet gets cooler, which it needs, and another gets warmer, which it needs, then we can colonize the other.

    On the opposite end, Venus is in the habitable zone too, but it's atmosphere is too thick, and keeps too much heat. Plus it is full of poisonious gasses.
     
  7. Light

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    ''Global warming'' theory, as most put it, is very inflated, so transporting CO2, besides being rather silly, wont be very effective either. Rather focus on more actual enviromental problems, such as the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, but even better would be, social and economic aspects of globalization, rather than extremely wasteful, unscientific, anti-progressive green parties.

    I found this to be much more interesting: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html
     
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    The thing is though, all known life needs water. We don't know anything about alien life so we are still assuming that they need water to live. We might be spending all our time in the wrong place.
     
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    But there's water there already. So they might be related with us!
    (humans leaving Earth on alien spaceship to build Mars into a Death Star! :eek:)
     
  10. If evolution is the key to life then we'll be long extinct before we see much come of this "evolution".
     
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    Darktemplar_L New Member

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    How about we send a gigantic robot to Mars that's programmed to drill into the ground and collect data?
     
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    We have a few of them.
     
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    But I mean gigantic, as in able to drill a hole into the ground and go in it and then collect data.
     
  15. Light

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    Data isnt potatoes.
     
  16. Darktemplar_L

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    What? I mean send a giant robot to Mars to drill deep into the ground and collect data...
     
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    Actually, Light actually made sense. Data isn't potatoes. You can't just dig into the ground and come up with wealths of data. The Rovers pretty much have to collect passively, as sending anything larger or more intricate means more stuff that can break down, and there's no one up there to fix it
     
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    NUKE!

    We can't have competition.
     
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    Are you aware of what the Martian atmoshphere consists of? Primarily CO2. Also moving an atmosphere is not trivial. Terraforming is complicated, time consuming stuff.

    We should get started yestruday so our great great great graandchildren can live there with jackets.
     
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    No one up there? Then we should send someone up there...