The question is: How do you begin Terra-Forming another planet?

First you would need to send many huge machines to pump out CFC and carbon, the same thing thats killing this planet by heat could create another, ironic isn't it. The CFC would need to surround Mars thereby heating up the planet and melting the remaining frozen water, and creating an atmosphere.

[Edited on 17-2-2004 by kinglizard]

Originally posted by Amorymeltzer

Originally posted by ArchAngel
What if the Mars Polar Lander was not really on that rocket? What if it did not fail, but went on to do a different mission?

k. thats all i was askin for, i thought u meant the literal, public image of odyssey
cud be, i dunno, if it worked wud we be seein the effects by now?

This is the grand conspiracy, and it is POSSIBLE. Too many things went right(Wrong) for it to be impossible.

Imagine 'they' realize they have a chance to crash a comet into a planet(other than earth). Would they pass it up?

Originally posted by kinglizard
The question is: How do you begin Terra-Forming another planet?

First you would need to send many huge machines to pump out CFC, the same thing thats killing this planet by heat could create another, ironic isn't it. The CFC would need to surround Mars thereby heating up the planet and melting the remaining frozen water, and creating an atmosphere.

Plants are little machines that turn CO2 and water into oxygen and bio-carbons. They use sunlight as the energy source. Life is the most important part of terra-forming, and it begins with the most simple, and ancient forms. Their actions capture energy from the sun and raise the energetic level of the environment with the same potential chemical energy that poweres higher forms of life.

[Edited on 17-2-2004 by ArchAngel]

"if it worked wud we be seein the effects by now?"

You would have seen them in June of 2000 IF the sun were not in the way....

[Edited on 17-2-2004 by ArchAngel]

Originally posted by kinglizard
The question is: How do you begin Terra-Forming another planet?

First you would need to send many huge machines to pump out CFC and carbon, the same thing thats killing this planet by heat could create another, ironic isn't it. The CFC would need to surround Mars thereby heating up the planet and melting the remaining frozen water, and creating an atmosphere.

[Edited on 17-2-2004 by kinglizard]

that water, mostly isnt water. the tons of polar ice is mainly CO2, which wud help in the atmospheric phase, but not for the whole water-for-life thing.

Originally posted by ArchAngel

Originally posted by kinglizard
The question is: How do you begin Terra-Forming another planet?

First you would need to send many huge machines to pump out CFC, the same thing thats killing this planet by heat could create another, ironic isn't it. The CFC would need to surround Mars thereby heating up the planet and melting the remaining frozen water, and creating an atmosphere.

Plants are little machines that turn CO2 and water into oxygen and bio-carbons. They use sunlight as the energy source. Life is the most important part of terra-forming, and it begins with the most simple, and ancient forms. Their actions capture energy from the sun and raise the energetic level of the environment with the same potential chemical energy that poweres higher forms of life.

[Edited on 17-2-2004 by ArchAngel]

Yes, good point, but you would first need an atmosphere to allow the plants to live. After that algae and mosses would be a good place to start, until the planet was able to support larger plant life.

Yes, good point, but you would first need an atmosphere to allow the plants to live. After that algae and mosses would be a good place to start, until the planet was able to support larger plant life.

Mars already has a CO2 atmosphere. The only thing you really need to add is water.

Originally posted by ArchAngel

Yes, good point, but you would first need an atmosphere to allow the plants to live. After that algae and mosses would be a good place to start, until the planet was able to support larger plant life.

Mars already has a CO2 atmosphere. The only thing you really need to add is water.

The Martian atmosphere results in only a weak greenhouse effect that raises the surface temperature by about 5°C. Consequently, most of Mars is well below the freezing point of water for most of the year. Moreover, even when the daytime temperature at low latitudes does climb significantly above freezing, the atmospheric pressure is so low that water ice turns directly into water vapor without first becoming liquid. So you see, we need to create an atmosphere on mars before life is even remotely possible.