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1/27/2015 10:57:10 PM
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1. Mars is at the outer edge of what is called the "Goldilocks zone" for our star. That is the distance from the Sun where enough energy reaches a planet to warm it to the point where water can exist as a liquid. Venus is at the near edge of it.
2. Mars has a thin atmosphere. Too thin for us to breath, but thick enough to help trap the Sun's energy and warm the planet.
So, like Earth, Mars is only pepetually cold enough to freeze water at its poles.
The only "space magic" the Traveller would have had to perform on Mars to "terraform it" (make it Earth-like) would have been to introduce oxygen to the atmosphere, thicken it to the point it would support life, and set the planet's core to spinning so that it would generate a magnetic field to protect life on the surface from radiation from space.
Venus and Mercury are another story. The real Venus is as hot as commercial oven with atmosphere that rains sulphuric acid....and Merucy is a dead rock (like our Moon) and is as hot as a blast furnace.
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There is another problem with terraforming Mars and other planets that a lot of people don't realize. Life on Earth has evolved to a ~24-hour day-night cycle. As far as I know, most planets don't share that distinction. Certainly not Mars. It would be very difficult for organisms to adapt to a whole new world with a different amount of time per given day.
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There is also a seasonal pattern to terrestrial life that many organisms have adapted to that would be different on any other planet. Bottomline...from the standpoint of life....Mars is basically a dead planet. My point is that---despite this---it is the most Earth-like of all the other Inner Planets. So the Traveller would have to perform the fewest "miracles" on it, in order to terraform it. What the Traveller did to Venus and our Moon bent the laws of physics until they screamed. What It did to Mercury just took them, and set them on fire.....
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Oh, I agree completely. Mars is definitely the prime candidate for a colony world. I was just pointing out an obstacle that a lot of people don't take into account.
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Valid point.
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My dude, he's trolling.
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Also the sun is deteriorating, if this is far in the future you would expect major atmospheric changes.
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You an astrophysicist? Lol
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Naah. But a lifelong astronomy buff.
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Wow.. That's cool!
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Edited by G-L-I-T-C-H-001: 1/27/2015 11:26:40 PMThis is so funny, everyone knows it's like that because that's how god made it. A mere man like yourself could not and should not try understand his works it's just beyond you and all of us..unless of course he chose you and spoke to you directly and shared something earth shattering and world changing and to guid us into a new age...fingers crossed it happens in my time. God bless you all and America. (Muslims burn in eternal hell)
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Don't let religion turn you ignorant. Believing in God is fine, in fact I encourage it, but don't be blind to all the knowledge he has given us and given us the ability to seek further into his creation. "Mathematics is the alphabet in which God has written the universe."
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"-blam!- me you are retarded shoot yourself in the head" Duuude the big man he totally just used my body to type that!! Oh and I'm 99.999999% sure he said to do it to all you Jesus freak friend first too!! Oh and he's changing his name to Mohammad but said he would explain more of that to you when you get there Lols cough go on get gone now work to be doing done
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That's really hard to follow, take an English course then try and type a coherent response.
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So you're going to troll the one correct post to a troll op? Why do people want to be a troll. I just imagine that people who troll were also those bullies in grade school who sit by the lockers making fun of everyone who passes.
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Naah.. Class clowns.
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Can't stand the outspoken minority of this forum. Can't stand "trolls", I don't even get what's funny about it. Tired of trying to educate fools. Guess that makes me a fool to even want to.
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Right....
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If you need spiritual help I can skype you and talk to about this false worship of yours "science" the semen of the devil that swims into your ear and corrupts your soul I will pray for you my child
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The [b]semen of the devil[/b]!? Wtf dude
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God be with you sir feel him in you heart and you'll will be free
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Lol at all this
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Also Mars needs a magnetic field to shield it from cosmic radiation. Its core has gone kaput.
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I think I mentioned that.
