Now this makes me curious, how would a nuclear explosion look on Mars? I'm guessing that an Earth-style mushroom cloud is out of the question, but it wouldn't be a singular bright flash like in deep space either. Once it has that, you can land infrastructure. We can make nuclear warheads small enough to land them on the poles, embed them a little, and detonate. It's the only short-term solution to giving Mars an atmosphere. There isn't enough atmosphere to make parachutes work, and rockets are too heavy that when you come to landing 300 tons on Mars, the only answer we have for you is "300 rockets".
It's that we *have* to fix the atmosphere before attempting to land anything on it. The problem with Mars is not that the atmosphere is a laboratory grade vacuum (we can fix that with current technology) or that it has no oxygen (we can do without that on a small scale) or even that in ten million years the solar wind will erode the atmosphere (who cares?). We can live there with current technology quite easily. However, it's now a "oxygen bottle and warm clothes" environment not unlike a high mountain on Earth. This'll take algae, lots of it, and time. You'll have liquid water and a tolerable temperature. Once you've done that, soot them.Ī century or so later, Mars is pressured up. Under the best case scenarios and with probably uninvented technologies, could a planet be Terraformed to create a breathable atmosphere in under 100 or 50 years? What types of hypothetical technology would be needed that we do not have now to Terraform a planet and create an atmosphere?Ħ. Has there been any hypothesis or studies completed to even begin formulating a process to terraform a planet?ĥ. How many decades or centuries are humans away from having the ability to Terraform a planet? (I personally like to look at the technology available in 1915 and compare to 2015 as a belief that we may have the ability in 100 years).Ĥ. Can you even Terraform AFTER colonization?ģ. Colonizing seems infinitely easier than Terraforming. Do we currently have or would have the technology in 25 years to colonize Mars, especially given the will and focus that unanimous agreement would bring?Ģ. So with the above assumptions, lets discuss possible answers to the following:ġ.
We remove all the political/ethic/morality/scientific debates and actually agree on a "plan" (unlikely I know) All the Earth's resources are brought to bare (money, technology, natural resources, knowledge)ģ. It is agreed that Mars offers the human race a chance at survivalĢ. Let us say that all the world's leaders and scientists agree that the Earth will be doomed in X years due to (insert outlandish scientific reason probably involving our Sun).Īnd based on that can make the following assumptions:ġ.
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