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Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target
Raver32 writes "Mars will be transformed into a shirt-sleeve, habitable world for humanity before century's end, made livable by thawing out the coldish climes of the red planet and altering its now carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.
How best to carry out a fast-paced, decade by decade planetary face lift of Mars — a technique called "terraforming" — has been outlined by Lowell Wood, a noted physicist and recent retiree of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a long-time Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution.
Lowell presented his eye-opening Mars manifesto at Flight School, held here June 20-22 at the Aspen Institute, laying out a scientific plan to "experiment on a planet we're not living on.""
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Perhaps it's immoral to terraform Mars. I mean, shouldn't we be preserving it for future generations or something? :)
Heh, knowing Linux programmers, I bet if you let *them* monkey around with a *completely different planet*, they will somehow screw up earth. Hey, some Ubuntu guys made it so that intalling Ubuntu on a separate hard drive could prohibit access to any OS. Why not go for the glory?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.