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

 

interesting, i have proposed nuking the middle east and south asia...

 

Would it be considered a preemptive strike or an act of unprovoked aggression?

"We need more living space. Give me the Sudatenland," demanded Musk.

 

I just spit a little bit of tea on my keyboard.

 

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.

 

Slice planet in half, scoop out the middle with a giant melon baller, replace core with a large mass of ferrous metal, glue the two halves back together.

Anyone interested in buying stock in Elmer's better get on board quick!

 

Mars has no iron?


The god of war has no swords?

 

It's currently filled with unobtainium, which, while great for making "S-Words", is entirely non-magnetic.

Nah, it's probably Iron, just like earth's.

 

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