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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."
Yeah, imagine a load of alien-movie-like species appearing because of that :D
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Just mention to George W that there are terrorists and WMD hiding out on Mars, and he'll let you test anything there!
You're right about "pop science". There's little debate anymore about the effects of CO2 on global temperatures, except among non scientists (i.e. Pop science). The only debate is, "Does it matter?" You can believe what you hear on from Pop science places like FoxNews, but there is a dramatic change going on and CO2 is the only explanation that's been found to fit.
Don't bother giving my what ever phony story you have. I've heard them all and I've seen the real data.
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Maybe we don't want to find life on Mars?
Millions of people argue passionately that the world was created in seven days by a deity 3,000 years ago. Try arguing with such a person.
Instead of pissing those people off, its easier to just kill the aliens.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Even if global warming were true for example (which it's not)
It's not? It's been conclusively proven that global warming isn't true? Wow, I totally didn't get the memo. Either that or I just missed it because it came with all the creationist memos I throw out every morning.
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This is not a decision that NASA should be allowed to take on its own, this is more even than an INTERNATIONAL level, the UN should step in here and block this until its considered at international level. Who does NASA think they are?
We have no way of telling that a massive release of gas on Mars would not eventually come back to haunt us here on Earth.
We do. We are constantly bombarded by massive releases of gas and particles from the Sun, and it has only very minor effects.
Also, there is the not-so-little matter of the gravity of Mars - any gas we release there is not going to drift off in bulk and effect us.
It will happen during the third term of Bush - Although not to save the planet, but to continue with his God-complex and rush to create the conditions of the Apocalypse.
:) )
As it says in Revelations - the seas will turn to blood.
A great algal bloom is red (due to the iron) rather than it's normal green, thus giving the seas the look of blood. It also, will cause massive sealife death due depletion of free oxygen in the water, and the heavy intake of C02 from the air)
Eventually, we'll return to the old Testament and be commanded by a burning Bush.
(My distopian conspiracy theory for the day, enjoy!