Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for October 24, 2015
October 23, 2015
October 25, 2015
Transcript:
verne: some day mars will be colonized. verne: Eventually it'll be teffaformed into a habitable planet with water and oxygen and plants and animals...eventually it'll look a lot like earth. medic! sorry, mars.
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nosirrom about 9 years ago
Of all of the proposals that I have read about terraforming Mars there is one question that is never addressed.How do you retain the atmosphere?Mars may have had a thicker atmosphere billions of years ago that allowed liquid water to flow on the surface, but it also had a strong magnetic field. Since then its magnetic field has waned allowing the solar wind to strip away its atmosphere. Some estimates say that it will take millennia to terraform Mars.But I think it would be a sisyphean exercise.
TMO1 Premium Member about 9 years ago
I don’t think it’s possible to make Mars’ atmosphere and temperature just like Earth’s. Sending manned missions to Mars would be a HUGE waste of money, and pointless insofar as “saving” the human race. Also, if the human race ruins Earth, it very simply doesn’t deserve another chance.
juicebruce about 9 years ago
Always look on the bright side of life……….
Space_cat about 9 years ago
A lot like Earth, if Earth moved to the Atacama Desert..
ars731 about 9 years ago
This reminds me of an Ray Bradbury story called The Concrete Mixer
SukieCrandall Premium Member about 9 years ago
Nossirom is right that the barely existant magnetic field is a problem, as is the partially related amount of UV that gets in.
URL about 9 years ago
The movie was cool. MacGyver meets Martian space detritus after discovering that it was and where it might be; that is the kick, and the somehow refashioned leftovers of keen minds’ enterprises. He had a LOT to work wit, starting with being a botanist. Popular Mechanics talks about the director, too; a special creation of a mother who pushed her kids to work out obstacles.
dogday Premium Member about 9 years ago
You guys must all be from the ‘60s, when there was plenty of cash in circulation to do things like space travel, the Peace Corp, build infrastructure…stuff like that. Maybe you haven’t noticed that we can’t / don’t do that stuff the same way anymore. Terraform Mars??!? Start a fund now.
And then, how about this….the solar system is built exactly the way it needs to be, with each entity possessing a function. It’s already known that one of the gas giants (or one of its moons, I forget which) acts something like a vacuum cleaner, sweeping dangerous debris away. Maybe there’s only one inhabitable planet per system. No condos in space, so to speak.