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zdd
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
1463 Posts
March 15 2007 13:15 GMT
#1
With the recent announcements of water being discovered on Mars, people began to question whether it could easily be converted into a suitable human habitat. Now, according to MARSIS, the south pole of the planet Mars contains an enormous amount of ice, enough to engulf the whole planet in 10 meters of water. If we could focus a laser beam or some controlled explosion on this chunk of ice, terraforming Mars would be an much simpler process.
All you need in life is a strong will to succeed and unrelenting determination. If you meet these prerequisites, you can become anything you want with absolutely no luck, fortune or natural ability.
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
March 15 2007 13:17 GMT
#2
Optimus Prime wont like this.

Not one bit.
MannerGent
Profile Joined November 2005
United States326 Posts
March 15 2007 13:26 GMT
#3
On March 15 2007 22:17 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Optimus Prime wont like this.

Not one bit.

What a loser {88}iNcontroL is. What conversational skills he has.

Imagine you are at a party having a good time watching something fun, then some fat guy who wasn't invited wedges in behind everyone and says, in what is most likely a very pretentious voice, "Optimus Prime wont like this." Everyone would look at him and then at each other, then shrug and pretend like they didn't hear.
You think scooby care about solving mystery? no, all scooby care about, is scooby snack.
Scorpion
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1974 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-15 13:27:15
March 15 2007 13:26 GMT
#4
On March 15 2007 22:17 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Optimus Prime wont like this.

Not one bit.

What a loser {88}iNcontroL is. What conversational skills he has.

Imagine you are at a party having a good time watching something fun, then some fat guy who wasn't invited wedges in behind everyone and says, in what is most likely a very pretentious voice, "Optimus Prime wont like this. Not one bit." Everyone would look at him and then at each other, then shrug and pretend like they didn't hear.




LAWL I'M SORRY ><

EDIT: Omg... you beat me to it ><

Sounds good in theory, but finding the brave souls who would go out there for a year or so (was it a year to get to Mars? Or 3 years? I forgot) is going to be the hardest obstacle.
Mango @ U.S.East!
MannerGent
Profile Joined November 2005
United States326 Posts
March 15 2007 13:28 GMT
#5
On March 15 2007 22:26 Scorpion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2007 22:17 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Optimus Prime wont like this.

Not one bit.

What a loser {88}iNcontroL is. What conversational skills he has.

Imagine you are at a party having a good time watching something fun, then some fat guy who wasn't invited wedges in behind everyone and says, in what is most likely a very pretentious voice, "Optimus Prime wont like this. Not one bit." Everyone would look at him and then at each other, then shrug and pretend like they didn't hear.




LAWL I'M SORRY ><

EDIT: Omg... you beat me to it ><

Sounds good in theory, but finding the brave souls who would go out there for a year or so (was it a year to get to Mars? Or 3 years? I forgot) is going to be the hardest obstacle.

hahaha owned...
You think scooby care about solving mystery? no, all scooby care about, is scooby snack.
azndsh
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4447 Posts
March 15 2007 13:36 GMT
#6
It would take decades, even centuries to terraform Mars. And we currently are lacking in technology and resources to even attempt it.
Servolisk
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
United States5241 Posts
March 15 2007 13:52 GMT
#7
:7
wtf was that signature
Wysp
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Canada2299 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-15 14:11:02
March 15 2007 14:09 GMT
#8
Scorpion, vendettas arn't cute

As for Mars, in current times the cost would be too great for the world, I'm not even sure we have the resources on earth to 'terraform' anything.
an overdeveloped sense of self preservation
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25996 Posts
March 15 2007 14:13 GMT
#9
On March 15 2007 22:15 zdd wrote:
If we could focus a laser beam or some controlled explosion on this chunk of ice, terraforming Mars would be an much simpler process.


Haha WHAT??
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iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
March 15 2007 14:14 GMT
#10
Dunno how I can not make a "lame" joke when the OP started a thread saying we need to focus a lazer cannon on Mars or nuclear bomb the icecaps. It currently takes us 30 years to get to the damn planet, what makes anyone think we are anywhere near the kind of things you discuss anyways?

I think at some point terraforming might be possible, but for now it certainly is not. Posing the question "should we lazer cannon or nuke the ice" wont get a thread anywhere imo. I could be wrong but I would think it to be more realistic that we first develop a way of getting there adequately. Best to "cross that bridge" when we get to it kinda thing.
rpf
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2705 Posts
March 15 2007 14:14 GMT
#11
I'm pretty sure we'd need the giant laser before we could even try to colonize Mars.
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud
Bill307
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada9103 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-15 14:42:03
March 15 2007 14:19 GMT
#12
On March 15 2007 22:15 zdd wrote:
With the recent announcements of water being discovered on Mars, people began to question whether it could easily be converted into a suitable human habitat. Now, according to MARSIS, the south pole of the planet Mars contains an enormous amount of ice, enough to engulf the whole planet in 10 meters of water. If we could focus a laser beam or some controlled explosion on this chunk of ice, terraforming Mars would be an much simpler process.


"A much simpler process"? If you want to talk about terraforming Mars, you should start by figuring out how we're going to give it a proper, denser atmosphere and a warmer surface temperature. Then the ice would melt on its own, anyway (and stay melted, for that matter).

Then we'd have to find a way to stop all life from getting irradiated to death by the solar wind, since Mars isn't protected by a magnetic field like the Earth is.

I guess it's nice to know for sure that there's water there already so that we don't need to import it ourselves. But we still have a lot to figure out.
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5299 Posts
March 15 2007 14:25 GMT
#13
i'll go to mars, pull out my force and start cutting through the ice
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
Wysp
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Canada2299 Posts
March 15 2007 15:21 GMT
#14
On March 15 2007 23:25 xM(Z wrote:
i'll go to mars, pull out my force and start cutting through the ice


Yeah, it must be better than Romania.


Sorry about the geopolitical joke, I couldn't resist.
an overdeveloped sense of self preservation
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5299 Posts
March 15 2007 17:19 GMT
#15
On March 16 2007 00:21 Wysp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2007 23:25 xM(Z wrote:
i'll go to mars, pull out my force and start cutting through the ice


Yeah, it must be better than Romania.


Sorry about the geopolitical joke, I couldn't resist.

haha, i don't mind it as long as you know what your talking about

colonising Mars is a wishfull thinking thow
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
KrAzYfoOL
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Australia3037 Posts
March 15 2007 17:32 GMT
#16
On March 15 2007 22:26 MannerGent wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2007 22:17 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Optimus Prime wont like this.

Not one bit.

What a loser {88}iNcontroL is. What conversational skills he has.

Imagine you are at a party having a good time watching something fun, then some fat guy who wasn't invited wedges in behind everyone and says, in what is most likely a very pretentious voice, "Optimus Prime wont like this." Everyone would look at him and then at each other, then shrug and pretend like they didn't hear.


ahahahaha, i can picture that scenario so well.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4926 Posts
March 15 2007 18:19 GMT
#17
The Optimus Prime comment was perfectly appropriate. Terraforming Mars is not even remotely simple or easy in our time.
IdiotWind
Profile Joined February 2007
Canada321 Posts
March 15 2007 18:53 GMT
#18
I would gladly volunteer to go live there. I am strongly of the opinion that colonization of other planets should be our main priority right now.
http://thelastgosu.blogspot.com/
d4d
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland1066 Posts
March 15 2007 19:20 GMT
#19
Send in Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer.
If they don't fight during transport (which would result in the end of the known universe anyways) they can do the work with ease, and with bare hands.
So there is no need to focus laser beam and we can keep BlueRay supplies for manufacturing PS3.

All we need actually is for the governor of California to join his middle fingers so his hand can fit the switch, and then push it.

It's going to be cool, but I am against the use of nuclear weapon for that end.

I'll volunteer to go too.
luck is not a factor
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SuperJongMan
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Jamaica11586 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-15 19:45:47
March 15 2007 19:44 GMT
#20
Goddamn Mexican Scorpions and Mannergent, wtf. We don't need that shit here.

Whenever I think of Mars now, i think of Futurama and Amy. She owns a boogaloo farm on mars...
And doesn't Mars have some crazy extreme temperatures?
Like the shade gets real cold and the hot parts get really hot?
Or izz that the moonyville?
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