Sorry, Elon. There's not enough CO2 to terraform Mars: http://ed.gr/w8ec pic.twitter.com/9ITT6sPHjE
There’s a massive amount of CO2 on Mars adsorbed into soil that’d be released upon heating. With enough energy via artificial or natural (sun) fusion, you can terraform almost any large, rocky body.
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It's actually a bit more difficult than that. Our follow-up, including comments from the experts involved in the study:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/31/no-you-cant-just-nuke-mars/#.W2DW8dhKi9Y …
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Nahhh don’t want to risk a cabal invasion on marspic.twitter.com/BeL8zpdPIe
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Are you sky gazing tonight and tomorrow? Mars looks so bright and so close
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I'm on my roof right now and the sky looks so beautiful.
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Any large Rocky body?pic.twitter.com/fOS07OyF3u
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"Even vaporizing Mars’ carbon rich sedimentary rocks, laid down when the Red Planet was watery, would only release about 12 millibars." ?
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If this isn't enough, it makes me wonder if there are non CO2 sources of carbon that can be fixed with the rust on the surface and make more CO2 somehow. I know someone's already digging down the microbe/lichen avenue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#Funded_research:_ecopoiesis …
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Just send 45 over there. He has plenty of hot air
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And he’d blend in well on mars...js
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Exactly. Just like the sub could have saved the kids, just gotta superheat mars. So simple. Elon is the greatest scientist the world has seen. Why is it hard for ppl to accept that.
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looking up on artificial sun fusion. The process currently requires water to operate. There are ways to make water. Are you planning to make water?
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It requires Tritium-Deuterium, not water directly. Fusion is an extremely efficient process so about 250 kg/year of deuterium/tritium would be enough fuel for a 1000MW power station on Mars. You could bring the supply with you.
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They should have stopped at "Sorry Elon".
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Martian soil makeup consists of carbon "cements" such as salt and calcium. The cement walls can be broken by a combination of high intensity heat&high pressure water. Something liken to massive explosives set off at poles to release the carbon.
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If NASA is saying that there is no model to support terraformation as something which can be technologically feasible in order to successfully develop Mars to a habitable planet, they are deceiving themselves. The future colonists are thinking of other possibilities.
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