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Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:13 pm
by CDFingers
Overlayed and colorized. But neat. Oddly, sized nicely for a background.

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Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2021 9:34 pm
by sikacz
I read recently about how a magnetic field could be created for Mars. Very interesting.

Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:15 am
by highdesert
Looks bleak for colonization, but wait till the subterranean cities are built.

Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:32 am
by tonguengroover
highdesert wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:15 am Looks bleak for colonization, but wait till the subterranean cities are built.
Kinda frivolous to spend all that money trying to terraform the red planet when we cannot seem to save our own planet from the destruction we are causing.

Yeah, lets go live on a planet incapable of sustaining life, sounds good in a sci-fi book but takes millions if not billions of years.

I agree on investigating whether or not it actually did sustain life at one time but I'd bet nothing more than microbes.

Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:47 pm
by CDFingers
Neil deGrasse Tyson says that if we have the power to terraform another planet, we have the power to repair our own.

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Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:58 pm
by TrueTexan
CDFingers wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:47 pm Neil deGrasse Tyson says that if we have the power to terraform another planet, we have the power to repair our own.

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But the Republican way is you don't repair your house, you just move to a new one.

Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:59 pm
by sikacz
CDFingers wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:47 pm Neil deGrasse Tyson says that if we have the power to terraform another planet, we have the power to repair our own.

CDFingers
Well both should be a goal.

Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:02 pm
by FrontSight
CDFingers wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:47 pm Neil deGrasse Tyson says that if we have the power to terraform another planet, we have the power to repair our own.

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But is that true??

Clearly we have over 100 years of experience in warming up a planet; which is what Mars needs. Check.
How many years of experience does humanity have in cooling a planet? One, and it wasn't on purpose.

Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 9:54 pm
by CDFingers
FrontSight wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:02 pm
CDFingers wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:47 pm Neil deGrasse Tyson says that if we have the power to terraform another planet, we have the power to repair our own.

CDFingers
But is that true??

Clearly we have over 100 years of experience in warming up a planet; which is what Mars needs. Check.
How many years of experience does humanity have in cooling a planet? One, and it wasn't on purpose.
He also says that if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their butts so much. But they don't, so they do.

His point is a fun one, though. designed to turn our human hunter gatherer origins on its head. Back in the day our band would occupy a region for a year or two, deplete the resources, then move fifty kliks down the valley. His point is that we've done run out of valleys, eh.

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Re: Mars Landing Feb 18

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:06 pm
by tonguengroover
I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. He had Colbert mystified the other day.