Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Elon Musk's Latest Idea: Let's Nuke Mars

Posted by timothy on from the to-wit-from-orbit dept.

KindMind writes: The Register reports that Elon Musk, in an appearance on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, said that to begin with, human residents on the red planet would need to live in "transparent domes." Before a move to more hospitable habitats, one needs only "to warm it up" and Musk thinks there's a fast way and a slow way to do that. The fast way "is drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles" and the slow way "is to release greenhouse gases, like we are doing on Earth."

2 of 261 comments (clear)

  1. There's still no magnetosphere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    you comic-book-gobbling sci-fi retard Space Nutter. Anyone need more proof that Space Nutters are mentally ill?

  2. Re:It's the Only Way To Be Sure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nuke the entire planet from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.

    What could possibly go wrong.

    Yes yes nuke it from orbit, HA HA HA HA FUCKING HA HA HA!! Man that line just NEVER EVER FUCKING GETS OLD EVER! We must, MUST I TELL YOU! repeat it every chance we get, in every single story, working it into every possible conversation! It just never wears thin! It never loses its appeal! It's among the most perfect of phrases, just dying for a chance to get repeated again and again! C'mon mods, we must reward this behavior! Give it the +5 Funny it deserves! Wait for a logged in person to say it YET AGAIN and mod them up to +5 Insightful! Man it'll just be great. If we keep doing that we will finally have the beautiful world we deserve!!