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Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars
Aug 18^th, 2019 at 12:42pm

"Elon Musk Wants to ‘Nuke Mars’ for Humans to Live—But There Is One Problem

Firing nuclear weapons at Mars might have been the last idea on Elon Musk’s mind before going to bed last night. “Nuke Mars!” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted Thursday night a few minutes past midnight, prompting a Twitter frenzy with over 100,000 likes by Friday morning.

Space fans who regularly follow Musk’s Mars colonization plan are no stranger to this sensational declaration.

In fact, Musk has been talking about nuking the red planet since 2015. He first floated this idea on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert back in September 2015, saying it would be the most efficient way to warm up Mars and make it more habitable for human life."

"There is one problem, though. Last year, a study on the possibility of using CO2 to terraform Mars published by Nature Astronomy found that Musk’s plan wouldn’t be feasible with today’s technology because there isn’t enough CO2 trapped on Mars to achieve the intended effect. Mars’ gravity is also not strong enough to retain vaporized CO2 in its atmosphere over time."

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· Aug 16, 2019
Nuke Mars!

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https://observer.com/2019/08/elon-musk-nuke-mars-colonization-plan-spacex/

St Elon the great.

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juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars Reply #1 - Aug 18^th, 2019 at 4:45pm Musky just trots out this extreme dream stuff just to create an aura and to con the dumb coots who waste their money on dangerous unsafe pollution spewing very inconvenient Tesla toy cars.
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Reply #2 - Aug 18^th, 2019 at 8:36pm

lee wrote on Aug 18^th, 2019 at 12:42pm:

"Elon Musk Wants to ‘Nuke Mars’ for Humans to Live—But There Is One Problem

Firing nuclear weapons at Mars might have been the last idea on Elon Musk’s mind before going to bed last night. “Nuke Mars!” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted Thursday night a few minutes past midnight, prompting a Twitter frenzy with over 100,000 likes by Friday morning.

Space fans who regularly follow Musk’s Mars colonization plan are no stranger to this sensational declaration.

In fact, Musk has been talking about nuking the red planet since 2015. He first floated this idea on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert back in September 2015, saying it would be the most efficient way to warm up Mars and make it more habitable for human life."

"There is one problem, though. Last year, a study on the possibility of using CO2 to terraform Mars published by Nature Astronomy found that Musk’s plan wouldn’t be feasible with today’s technology because there isn’t enough CO2 trapped on Mars to achieve the intended effect. Mars’ gravity is also not strong enough to retain vaporized CO2 in its atmosphere over time."

Elon Musk
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· Aug 16, 2019
Nuke Mars!

Elon Musk

https://observer.com/2019/08/elon-musk-nuke-mars-colonization-plan-spacex/

St Elon the great.

More nukes?

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Johnnie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12485 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars Reply #3 - Aug 18^th, 2019 at 11:01pm They should nuke mars, what do we have to lose. create a dust storm, an atmosphere of sorts.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 46482 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars Reply #4 - Aug 18^th, 2019 at 11:04pm Mars is what this world will look like if all out Nuclear War broke loose. Venus is what this world will look like if we let Pollution get out of control.
Back to top	AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY. IP Logged

juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars Reply #5 - Aug 19^th, 2019 at 8:01am Isn't pollution already out of control ? According to the Greenies it is. But then the Greenies ARE pollution!!!
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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars Reply #6 - Aug 19^th, 2019 at 11:08am Johnnie wrote on Aug 18^th, 2019 at 11:01pm: They should nuke mars, what do we have to lose. create a dust storm, an atmosphere of sorts. How would it create an atmosphere.
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16400 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars Reply #7 - Aug 19^th, 2019 at 2:30pm Johnnie wrote on Aug 18^th, 2019 at 11:01pm: They should nuke mars, what do we have to lose. create a dust storm, an atmosphere of sorts. First they would have to create a magnetosphere.
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Reply #8 - Aug 19^th, 2019 at 5:02pm

lee wrote on Aug 19^th, 2019 at 2:30pm:

Johnnie wrote on Aug 18^th, 2019 at 11:01pm:

They should nuke mars, what do we have to lose. create a dust storm, an atmosphere of sorts.

First they would have to create a magnetosphere.

A little magnetosphere exists from solarwind, my plan was to add to the dust storms to get the blanket effect thus warming up the planet melting the polar caps containing CO2 and water, making rain rivers waterfalls and rainbows, we would only have to add some microbes then?

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Reply #9 - Aug 19^th, 2019 at 5:16pm

Johnnie wrote on Aug 19^th, 2019 at 5:02pm:

A little magnetosphere exists from solarwind, my plan was to add to the dust storms to get the blanket effect thus warming up the planet melting the polar caps containing CO2 and water, making rain rivers waterfalls and rainbows, we would only have to add some microbes then?

But too little apparently.

from the source article -

" Mars’ gravity is also not strong enough to retain vaporized CO2 in its atmosphere over time."

Next of course solar wind -

"The Solar wind is thought to have stripped away most of Mars' atmosphere, possibly after the red planet's magnetic field dissipated."

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-earth-magnetosphere.html

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