Quote from: MosherIV on Today at 08:20:40 am
If you are going to build stuff in space - why would you both doing it just to nuke another planet that is no suitable for human habitation.
Just build space stationS to live in.
The whole point is about terraforming a planet over the long term, which in theory is possible.
Yes, ok, you want to try and terrform a planet.
However, terforming Mars is pointless.
Even if you succeed in thickning the atmosphere and warming it up and get enough water on the surface.
The problem is that Mars no longer has a magnetic feild to protect the atmosphere.
The atmosphere is literally being blown away by the Sun's solar wind because there is no magnetic feild to deflect the solar wind!
If you do terraform Mars, it is only a matter of time before all the work is undone and the atmosphere is thined by the solar wind.
Did I mention that Mars only has 0.3G ?
Do you really want to create generations that are too weak to stand up in a 1G environment?