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Terraform Mars Using Oasis Greenhouses

Posted by simoniker on from the or-bust dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Director of the Mex-Areohab project, Omar Diaz, is interviewed today on the feasibility of modifying the Martian climate and terraforming with mini-greenhouses. At higher than 5,000 meters above sea level, on the volcano Pico de Orizaba, the Mexican model can be compared to many oases in the desert and contrasts with industrial-scale terraforming by Zubrin and McKay, among others, who use fluorocarbons, orbital mirrors, polar melting and pollution machines. One planet's pollution is another planet's rain machine, but the thrust of the interview seems to maintain that micro-terraforming is just faster and more efficient."

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  1. Send Me!! by bhima · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is a great idea, and I think it could be impleemnted in our life time (Provided the USians quit spending all of their money on weapons). If every one is still worriend about saftey SEND ME!

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  2. Re:Correction by bhima · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yes, I did mean Billion not Million.

    The ratio of spending does vary wider than I expected depending on which source is used but I think 1.8:1 is average of a quick survey.

    Average of a quick survey of world spending was just below 900 billion. So again the money is there if the priority was.

    And as someone else pointed out DARPA funds research also.

    SO all of this makes me feel like space must be militarized in order to attract funding (or sufficent interest)

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