Here's a check list of why Mars fucking sucks,
0.377g of 1g: JELLO BABIES!!! JELLO BABIES!!! JELLO BABIES!!!
44% of light compared to Earth: Not enough to grow your own food.
Temps are Min −226F, Mean −82F, Max 95F: Too cold most of the time in most places.
Surface pressure is 0.00628 atm: Ever see ending scenes of the original movie Total Recal?
Air is 96% carbon dioxide, 1.93% argon and 1.89% nitrogen along with traces of oxygen and water.
>terraform Mars
Mate, do you even understand what a force is?
>"Magnetosails, solar sails, what's the difference?"
Jello babies is a fucking stupid argument because all tests are based on 0g, which is a whole world away from 0.37g in terms of biological function. But granted, we have no idea what will happen until a roastie pops one out on Mars. Everything else on that list can be compensated for in enclosed habitats.
introduce:
- extremophiles and water
- progressively more normal microbes and more water
- fungi and even more water
- small plants
- larger plants
- small animals
all throughout I'd be pumping out oxygen, carbon dioxide, and any non-threatening greenhouse gases available
kind of this, Venus is more suitable in terms of mass, but we'd need to not just add atmosphere but take away the fucktons of sulfur in the existing atmosphere, and deal with the sulfur in the surface, and cool down the surface, and deal with a wonky day-night cycle
Honestly It would required a tremendous amount of work. Thus workforce to perform such work is a must. I would say that between 20-25 is a good start. I would honestly start by Scheduling 3 trips.
> Each trip is 5-9 people.
> A significant amount of resources will be needed. So probably periodically delivers of food & water must be schedule either ahead or before hand.
> Sending Tools, materials ahead.
I would start by constructing domes. 1 dome per crew is a good start. The goal will be for the first 3 crews to construct at least 5 domes. Including one that is able to sustain food with controlled soil and bioengineering.
Such domes have to be interconected. After the crew is stabilized with solid supply of food and water. The next step would be to figure out how to make the planet capable of sustaining life and developing flora.
I would start small. Maybe by starting an expedition to locate the appropiate place. That is big enough and easy enough to start a project of flora incorporation. My first idea would be look for a cave. A cave big enough that makes it easy to isolate from the outside and that can have at least a good size. I would prepare the soil and isolate everything to the most possible extend. I would pump the necesary gases needed and i would probably monitor the whole area with A.I or machine learning that keeps control at all times of the conditions. pt1
pt2
the objective of this is to create a self sustaining mini "forest".Once this is achieve more of these project will be done to obtain relative safe heavens if shit goes bad. This is probably going to take 5 years and im talking about starting to see everything grow at least more than a meter in height. 10 years have passed and the forest starting to look good.
Okay 2-3 Mini forest in caves were obtained and about 20-25 domes are created sustating at least 200 people. Time to figure out how to create the right atmostphere. Now we have to take in account that 20 yrs of advances have elapse in Earth. So who knows what type of new things are going to be available.
Okay now lets think about mars. What are the characteristics of the fields? what are the gases present? How is the panorama?. Having answers to these questions is a good start to figure out what type of flora to incorporate. I would go to the most similar place on earth that resembles mars and then i would take note of the plants and the way the overcome the weather. Choose a suitable one and engineer it.
If you hold up a magnet up to another magnet, you'll notice that you feel them either pulling or pushing towards each other.
If a mag field deflects a particle, the particle puts the same force back onto the source of the magnetic field.
They are the same, you are a brainlet.
Here is a neat video for your consideration: youtube.com
>I would start by constructing domes.
Domes are a meme, they dont provide radiation shielding. Any colony will have to be mostly underground.
There is a lot of fantastic and incredibly strong leaded glass on the market that is used for radiation shielding. I don't see why it couldn't be repurposed for a dome.