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NASA Proposes Warming Mars
hotsauce writes "The Guardian reports a NASA scientist has proposed releasing a gas on Mars to start a global warming of the planet in order to make it more hospitable for life. No word on how much traction this has amongst geophysicists. I wonder how much simulation and testing you need before we feel safe about affecting an entire planet."
Shouldn't be that hard considering how good us humans are at causing global warming!
Ohh, just a few more decades and we'll have a viable test bed right here on earth.
Maybe we could ship all of them to Mars? Well worth the cost if you ask me.
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With all that methane being generated, it should warm the place up quickly
Apparently none, since we are modifying the earth in bad ways every day. Having another planet we can live on sounds like a great idea to me, since this one is becoming less habitable every day.
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I wonder how much simulation and testing you need before we feel safe about affecting an entire planet. We've been affecting Earth for quite some time. Hell, we're experts in global warming. Bring on Mars!
Right, because we absolutely cannot risk damaging the delicate ecosystem on Mars, thereby rendering the planet inhospitable for human life!
It's a nice idea, but it just won't work. According to the Bush administration, there is no such thing as global warming, thus we would be unable to raise the temps on Mars. ;-)
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Is now a good time to tinker with another planet's atmosphere?
When isn't it a good time to tinker with another planet's atmosphere?
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Hey can't they just kick start the core with a big nuke? I'm sure I saw that in a documentary or a movie.
> When Mankind can prove it can live in equilibrium oni Earth, then it can spread elsewhere.
What do we do when we prove we can't then?!
I sure hope Khan doesn't find out about this plan. Although, maybe if he does, we can send the dead scripts from Enterprise to the budding planet and resurrect a franchise ...
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Go call up Chris McKay at NASA and tell him your feelings about his project. My prediction is that he'll say something other than "Oh my gosh! You're right! I'll begin a more realistic project immediately!"
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I wonder how much simulation and testing you need before we feel safe about affecting an entire planet
It's funny how they're talking about radically changing another world but thing that astonished me the most was the proper use of "affected" instead of "effected" in a Slashdot post.
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We can't seem to get our outdated shuttles off the ground safely, or keep a permanent space staion running effectively. Is now a good time to tinker with another planet's atmosphere?
But we are already good at fucking up planets!
Uh, and the risk would be what? That Mars would become uninhabitable?
This should be a raving success. I mean, look at how successful we are at warming up the Earth!
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Well, remember that NASA is likely to be involved here. A little confusion between megatons and gigatons, and blammo, Mars could be propelled inwards towards Earth's orbit.
I'd settle for replacement by a species that can draft coherent sentences.
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Anyone else see the irony in someone with the name "ArthurDent" saying that the Earth is not in imminent danger of destruction?
Forget global warning for a minute, earthman, and consider a meteor the size of Texas slamming into us at a few million miles per hour. The effects of that would be, in a word, bad.
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But then we'll just get cancelled.
"Bossting CO2 emmissions on another planet - gee, how the hell are we gonna pull that one off"
I have a '73 Buick I think could do it.
My guess is you're conservative because you'd rather save $5 today than avoid a possible global crisis. The narrow minded, poor planning, ethnocentric, pathetic administration is right up your alley.
Sorry, but that pre-judgmental, unsubstantiated, conversationally shallow, narrow-minded, and just dead wrong comment, meant to do no more than enflame a meaningless confrontation... warrrants no further reponse than this.
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I picture an enormous d20 crashing to the Martian surface and someone at NASA ominously saying "You've just failed your saving throw versus PROGRESS."
I am starting the People Unified to Stop Science In Extraterrestrial Settings. Join today to help us stop this senseless disregard for possible microbial life on Mars! Life is life and we must preserve it to the end!
We can make Mars like Earth when we're done making Earth like Venus.
Let's try to focus here, people.
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In other news, shares of automakers flew through the roof today as speculators pointed to the need for tens of millions of automobiles that will need to be left idling for a week to trigger this. Contruction on the 6-lane highway that the cars will be parked on has begun this week, complete with toll booths and signs for Jersey City exits.
Scientists are positive that the past 100 years of atmospheric modeling on US roads has produced the most effective greenhouse booster possible.
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Launch a fresnel lens the size of Australia at the sun adjustable to keep its focus on the red planet. then videotape all the little green guys as they crawl out of the ground with their heads on fire.