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Originally posted by beergoggles
Wow, That link had some really complicated information. I was wondering, DavidBieniek, as you are a Physicist, could you explain it in simpler terms? I want to understand it but that is a little out of my league.
Thanks in advance,
BG- fellow musician and human
Originally posted by ScienceGuyQ
Yes, without going into details of the field stength and uniformity... Mars has a very weak magnetic field. This is due the the dynamo inside it being either dead or almost dead. The dynamo is the liquid iron portion of the core of the planet that spins and produces the magnetic field. Earths dynamo is very active and thus shield us from the radiation that fills space. Without our magnetic field we would all start off with some bad sunburn and move on to massive skin cancer.
Mars does not offer us this protection, nor do we have even close to the technology to change it. When talking about the dream of terraforming Mars this is normaly left out cause its a real dream-stopper.
Am I missing something?
I think we should move to Mars
Originally posted by Krisboton
Should we move to mars?
Tell me if you would live their and why and if not why
I think we should!
But the idea of using green house gases to heat it up is silly because then eventually we will crap up mars too! Then we will just be moving planet to planet destroying them!
Originally posted by ScienceGuyQ
If humans do make Mars warmer and more oxygen rich, we still need to do something about the radiation. Mar's doesn't have a protective magnetic field like the earth. Mutations and evolution on Mars would be MUCH faster.