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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.""
Where the buggalo roam... and monkeys where hats.
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Perhaps it's immoral to terraform Mars. I mean, shouldn't we be preserving it for future generations or something? :)
Two weeks ago I found a short movie that outlines the exact terraforming process that is mentioned in TFA. It's rather short, but it has many fascinating details I don't usually find in non-acdemic reviews of the terraforming process and its dangers. Mars=>Earth: The Movie
Lets terraform that sucker and see what develops.
After the wonderful success of terror-forming in Iraq, what could possibly go wrong?
Cryonics - Keep cool and carry on.
Don't forget volcanos can crate more mass, once the warming starts there will be geological activity and new island masses will be formed over time. Also water is much heavier than ice, and when it all starts to melt the planet will have more mass.
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.