Nuke Mars!
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Nuke Mars!
The phrase "nuke it from orbit" gets thrown around a lot these days...
A while back, I re-posted a humorous essay which proposed that as a step to achieving world peace, the US needed to nuke the moon.
Apparently Elon Musk was listening.
Musk, who has a habit of coming up with zany ideas and then transforming them into workable business models (Tesla Motors, SpaceX, etc) has proposed, with a straight face, that the fastest and easiest way to terraform Mars into a habitable planet is to nuke it from orbit. Specifically, to drop numerous megaton-class thermonuclear weapons on the poles.
Elon Musk's new idea: Nuke Mars - CNN.com
A while back, I re-posted a humorous essay which proposed that as a step to achieving world peace, the US needed to nuke the moon.
Apparently Elon Musk was listening.
Musk, who has a habit of coming up with zany ideas and then transforming them into workable business models (Tesla Motors, SpaceX, etc) has proposed, with a straight face, that the fastest and easiest way to terraform Mars into a habitable planet is to nuke it from orbit. Specifically, to drop numerous megaton-class thermonuclear weapons on the poles.
Elon Musk's new idea: Nuke Mars - CNN.com
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Soooo... How do you generate a magnetic field like the one Earth has. So that all the radiation is blocked.
Clouds and an atmosphere from what I understand, does not block radiation.
Then again, i'm no professional.
Clouds and an atmosphere from what I understand, does not block radiation.
Then again, i'm no professional.
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There was an article in today's NY Times where NASA is concerned that we don't **** Mars up with our human microbes.
I should think a little radiation from a nuclear burst would fix that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/sc...tionfront&_r=0
I should think a little radiation from a nuclear burst would fix that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/sc...tionfront&_r=0
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