To terraform mars just crash a couple hundred thousand meteors into it, wait for that shit to cool off and bam, fresh planet.
Hi. That's the thing that caused it have any manner of geologic activity in the first place.
what?
Yeah, no. Meteors didn't cause Mars' volcanoes and tectonic plates. I mean, sure impacts had some impact on the geology of the planet of course. But it's not what cause all or even most of its geologic activity.
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edited August 2012
Sorry, I was thinking of a thing I read a while back suggesting that Mars had a more active core way back in the early solar system due to heat introduced by sustained impact events.
In me not being silly news, dat antenna
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I get what you meant now, and it's not completely wrong. But the same could be said of Earth. When both planets were hotter they were more geologically active.
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PASADENA, Calif. - NASA will host several media teleconferences and/or news conferences to provide Curiosity rover mission updates in the coming weeks.
The next scheduled media telecons are: Tuesday, Aug. 21 and Thursday, Aug. 23, both at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT).
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That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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Here's something I'm still having trouble processing or comprehending:
Sojourner had a mission profile of 1 month, and lasted 3.
The Mars Exploration Rovers had a 3 month mision profile; Spirit lasted over 6 years, and Opportunity is at 8 years and counting.
Curiosity's mission is planned to run for almost 2 years, but uses an RTG rather than solar power, so isn't subject to the same sort of heating/power cycle issues that have been the major causes of rover end-life events; the RTG has a minimum power life expectancy of 14 years, by which stage it will have dropped from 125 watts to 100 watts power, but could conceivably keep providing enough power to the rover for several decades. This is the same sort of power source that is still powering the Voyager probes at the edge of the Solar System, some 35 years since it was launched.
The idea that I might be retired before Curiosity is; the possibility of it continuing to provide useful scientific analysis for 2 or 3 decades is just staggering to me. I mean, Opportunity is still going strong, but realistically I only expect to get another 3-4 years out of it; if it makes it another 8 years, I'll frankly be astounded. But the idea that Curiosity might just keep going and going until I'm old enough to have grandchildren; the idea that my own kids will live in a world where having a robot explorer on another planet is just the norm, that this might now be a constant, a permanent state of affairs... it's just another way in which the world has changed in the time I have been alive, like cellphones or the internet, and like them, it kinda snuck up on me and surprised me without me really noticing at the time when it happened.
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We have been over this
Clearly there were not enough impacts.
Crash one of jupiter's moons in to that bitch
No, it makes you knurd
In me not being silly news, dat antenna
Everybody knows Saturn is the stickiest planet
got that Cronus kush
http://www.teslasciencecenter.org/
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ybmmh/we_are_engineers_and_scientists_on_the_mars/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19296006
pictures like this throw me into a looping cycle of "holy shit i can't believe that's a picture of mars"
because holy mackerel look at that picture of mars.
Holy shit!
It's a picture of mars taken from Mars
!!!
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
It's just a sound stage the built in a hanger...
On mars
Or Mars Helicopters.
Sojourner had a mission profile of 1 month, and lasted 3.
The Mars Exploration Rovers had a 3 month mision profile; Spirit lasted over 6 years, and Opportunity is at 8 years and counting.
Curiosity's mission is planned to run for almost 2 years, but uses an RTG rather than solar power, so isn't subject to the same sort of heating/power cycle issues that have been the major causes of rover end-life events; the RTG has a minimum power life expectancy of 14 years, by which stage it will have dropped from 125 watts to 100 watts power, but could conceivably keep providing enough power to the rover for several decades. This is the same sort of power source that is still powering the Voyager probes at the edge of the Solar System, some 35 years since it was launched.
The idea that I might be retired before Curiosity is; the possibility of it continuing to provide useful scientific analysis for 2 or 3 decades is just staggering to me. I mean, Opportunity is still going strong, but realistically I only expect to get another 3-4 years out of it; if it makes it another 8 years, I'll frankly be astounded. But the idea that Curiosity might just keep going and going until I'm old enough to have grandchildren; the idea that my own kids will live in a world where having a robot explorer on another planet is just the norm, that this might now be a constant, a permanent state of affairs... it's just another way in which the world has changed in the time I have been alive, like cellphones or the internet, and like them, it kinda snuck up on me and surprised me without me really noticing at the time when it happened.
Really huge.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4493
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-254
"We need to find out how to get there ourselves so we can bring them home safely!"
I think she's seen Wall-E a few too many times.
To be fair so did I but I never expected such a response from my mum.