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Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases
fembots writes "Scientists are thinking of using the same toxic stuff (Octafluoropropane) already blamed for global warming here to put some life back on Mars. It would take hundreds of years but eventually ice sheets would melt, grass would grow here, and temperatures would hit 50 degrees along the equator of the planet. Martian organisms might be revived too - if there are any."
Send CmdrTaco to Mars after he eats a burrito.
I remember the game SimEarth had you do something like this in order to make it livable. Of course, I nuked everything that moved, but that was a different story. Why are we trying to terraform mars?
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
1 planet down, 9x10^10000 to go!
50 degrees? Damn that's chilly!
(Surely you mean celsius, try to be clear. Next time the number might not be so obvious. You could end up crashing a space probe or something.)
One has to assume you're there, quite the feat; and, let me be the first to say, I welcome our grass growing, and smoking, Martian Overlords.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
You could just put two or three of those 7gHz Pentum 4's on there without any cooling. That should warm everything up in a few hours.
"...planet several thousand miles away"
I might agree with spending a little more money on education.
Wait a minute here... You're telling me some of the water the life guards have been nagging me about not getting in my lungs can actually be used for swimming? Bwaaaahahaha - CPR-wimps, Eat Crow!
harvested for what? I hope you didn't mean for drinking. You have no idea what kind of organisms exist in martian "water" or if there's any way to kill said organisms. Sounds like a good way to win yourself a darwin award to me.
If anything has taught me well, it was DOOM and DOOMII that we need not wake up the zombies of marz.
They will surely frag us to death.
Your ignorance is infinitely greater than you realize.
Brilliant! Man, I bet my name will go down in history for having given a title to this new concept.
I'd be surprised, you posted as "Anonymous Coward". Bad luck...
....250 years ago Bwizopp Gnis'uen, a famous martian scientist came up with an idea how to colonize that cold blue planet.
"This great plan will allow us to finally colonize that pesky blue planet and in the meantime allows us to get rid of that ape infestation over there.
It would be hugely expensive to invade, so the brilliance of the plan is to let those apes do it for us. They will never suspect a thing.
All we have to do is to tell them about the huge reserves of so called "oil" in the ground. The timing is crucial, because if we would tell them too late, they would discover a much easier way to generate energy. That would be a disaster, but it won't happen. When they realise what's going on it will be too late already."
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
once the reaction starts, it'll spread to all the turbinium in the planet. Mars will go into global meltdown. That's why the aliens never turned it on.
as campy as that movie was, I still like it.
That would be a long pipe, shit-for-brains.
Offer yourself to the lions. After all, they're natural and wouldn't dream of hurting another living creature would they?
Guess what. It's survival of the fittest.
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Damn, I wish someone had invented a technique for sterilizing drinking water.
It was on CBS News, so undoubtedly they were using American units. In this traditional system, used by all popular media when translating scientific stories for the unwashed, the unit of area is the "football field" (also of length, depending on context), "Rhode Island" or "Texas"; the unit of weight is "the Volkswagen", unit of money is "mile-high stack of dollar bills", unit of data is "New York phonebook", or "Library of Congress", etc. Though for 50F, the official American equivalent is, I believe, slightly warmer than a witch's tit.
Oh no... We're ruining *another* planet??!
And then you all complain when martians, or any other extraterrestial species, come to exterminate us...
jeez.
-dZ.
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