Nuke the north and south pole on mars

>take one to two million years
That's a big amount of time

why don't we just nuke mars with an oxygen bomb?

why dont we nuke your mom with my dick?

When people talk about nuking the ice caps on Mars for CO2 I don't think they realize how much CO2 there actually is there.

If you managed to melt all the dry ice, the atmosphere would double in pressure, which is not much at all.

You forgot the part where a solar storm wipes the atmosphere clean off

yes bully

can you prove that there's enough co2 there for this?

>not steadily pushing it into a closer orbit with the Sun
>not re-establishing a hot enough core to sustain a magnetic field while pushing into closer orbit

>co2 isn't a greenhouse gas
oh dear fucking hell, who invited the Breitbart writer?

>pushing a planet
>heating the core

solar wind doesnt strip atmosphere that quickily

UUUU

What about methane gas pockets and gases that are chemically locked inside regolith? Surely that would help.

yeah nuke them as well
nuke it all
fuck mars up

>co2 isn't a greenhouse gas

Yeah lets turn Mars into Venus.

I wasn't specifically saying we should NUKE the gas pockets and regolith...
Just that we could maybe release the methane in controlled bursts and release gases like oxygen, carbon monoxide and CO2 through chemical processes.
...While we nuke the shit out of the polar ice caps of mars.

>spending gazillions of dollars on flying nukes to a dead planet
>minute increase in atmosperic composition and pressure, if any
>significant radiation hazard
>zero change in temperature

>mfw sending anything up there is just as pointless and expensive as ever

> .3G
FUCKING KEK

enjoy getting deformed babies on your mars colony.

thats why we have to go to venus
its already warm, solar power is like twice as good there, infinite wind power, nice thick atmosphere perfect for growing crops

Think you can just compress all the water you could ever need straight out of the atmosphere.

Dnno why Musk wants to do mars, when Venus is closer and better.

You can't reach Venus' surface

>build a Mars base with enough manufacturing infrastructure to build another Mars base on-site using in situ materials
>get colonists to just keep building new bases
Is there a flaw in this plan?

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says who?
It's 450 degrees, not hot enough to melt anything, only difficulty is the electronies.
But active cooling with the unlimited wind power on the surface is doable.

Dredging from floating platforms is doable, if there is subsurface hydrocarbons then that's like 99% of the difficulty solved.

>> UNLIMITED WIND POWAH
Nigga windspeed on the surface is like really low like 0.5 m/s, sure it's like really dense, but you can't get much power.

NASA figures that a 1 meter wind turbine generates something like 15 watts mechanical. This is not enough to cool electronics. Silicon carbide semiconductors work at venusian temps and aren't too far off. Only thing we're having trouble with is the packaging. IE the traces have to be made with gold, the solder is silver, and chips themselves have to be made from special ceramic.

Oh look a picture of Venus' surface

And here's some high temp SiC semiconductor electronics with GOLD traces. Unfortunately what kills these things is the gold traces degrading, this is a fixable problem

Colonizing Venus is a stupid idea.
The surface temperature is over 860F and jet fuel burns at 800F. You would not be able to build anything because it would melt.

Also...
THE ATMOSPHERE IS ACID (and also toxic and opaque)
So anything on the surface would be molten, in darkness and be crushed by 90 atmospheres of pressure. Anything floating would have to be low enough in the atmosphere to have enough air pressure to float and we still run into the same problems as before except now you can also fall to your death.

Also Venus is a girl planet, no thanks

>The surface temperature is over 860F and jet fuel burns at 800F. You would not be able to build anything because it would melt.
wow and you thought you had it bad
venus is stuck in a perpetual 9/11
justice for venus when?

That would actually be a noble and agreeable method of reducing our (and Russia's) nuclear stockpile.

And look at this a silicon carbide LED operating at 600C.

>>So anything on the surface would be molten
Venus is like 500 C tops m8, jet fuel burns hotter than this.(And as we all know jet fuel can't melt steel beams)

>>Anything floating would have to be low enough in the atmosphere to have enough air pressure to float
The venusian atmosphere is really dense, it's CO2 after all. CO2 is heavier than air, so air is a lifting gas on venus. At 50 km, you reach 1 atm pressure, and air is still a lifting gas.

ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030022668.pdf

doing anything on Mars is pointless now. One should first try to build a Lunar base.

>landing of lunar in-situ construction modules
>development of mining facilities for Helium-3
>tokamak research facility for fusion advancement
>deadulus drive development
>then everything else

thinking about Mars now, is like thinking about the Moon before even sending a dog into space.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Helium-3 mining is a fucking joke. It's present in VERY LOW concentrations on the moon and fusion isn't energy positive on Earth. Simply building tokamaks on the moon won't fix that.

Lunar ISRU does make sense, just not for helium-3. If we're ever going to build space based solar power plants, we would build them using lunar resources.

one wouldn't even need the development of the daedalus drive, a rail-launch ramp from the moon would work great given that deuterium would fuel the tokamak to achieve enough power to propell the vehicle at a high velocity.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver

>unbreathable atmosphere
>too cold
>radiation
>very low gravity
>very low atmospheric pressure
all of these are problems solved by replacing our squishy vulnerable bodies with superior mechanical ones

yes, but not with tokamaks. at least not at the current state of research

would it be biologically possible to replace major bone structure with tougher materials like metal. basically creating wolverines without the healing.

here, I think you dropped this
>?

>Nigga windspeed on the surface is like really low like 0.5 m/s, sure it's like really dense, but you can't get much power.
It would be the same situation as on Earth, certain areas have more wind power than others. Put your wind turbines on a nearby hill/mountain.

It's a whole planet, after all.

>Oh look a picture of Venus' surface taken by a probe that was destroyed by Venus' nightmarish atmosphere just minutes after photographing it

That is incorrect. The venera probes lasted about an hour with max survival time of 127 minutes on venera 13. The issue was the electronics failed

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera

Surface windspeed is still fuck all. Venera 9 landed at a relatively high altitude compared to other probes and still measured a wind speed of 0.5-0.7 m/s

>60 to 127 minutes is too long to casually describe as "just minutes"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_10
>Venera 10 measured a surface windspeed of 3.5 m/s.

What about this
Not sure what the optimum altitude for wind turbines would be.

That's about 850 watts per m^2 at the betz limit, which is pretty decent. This of course before conversion to electricity, which is going to be pretty bad because magnets don't work well at venusian temps. Landis estimates you need 594 watts to run a cooler for electronics for a rover. So one could maybe run a cooler with windpower

Main problem is that we have no data about windspeed variability on venus. It's probably not 3.5 m/s all the time

Of course with SiC electronics there is no need for cooling and one could use all that power for something else

guys

why don't we just build a big wall around a small section of the planet (like the chinese did) and then terraform THAT section with nukes to make an atmosphere?

since it's a smaller surface area it could work!

Ok so you build a wall then you nuke it, then you fill it with oxygen, the oxygen then floats away leaving a cold radioactive airless wasteland,

Still might want SOME sort of cooling if building electronics capable of 500c doesn't work out.

the radiation from space would deactivate the oxygen atoms

dumb crooked nasty hillary supporter