/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3799542
It seems to be more about 'Well Mars needs heating up and a pressurized atmosphere, these machines can do this and make this gas and extract nitrogen from nitrates blah blah' but in my opinion Mars will need to be supplemented Green Mars-style with continuous nitrogen shuttles from Titan. Extra solar radiation via orbital mirrors will be supplemented by nanotech until a widescale rapid conversion of the atmosphere into largely oxygen and nitrogen is required. Then we take Colonel Coffee and Drexler off their leashes and hope they don't strip mine the entire planet to create a Matrioshka brain encompassing the solar system like in Accelerando.

If you wish for a Mars-edition of this picture in the relatively near future, say 'I'

Mars is a blank slate. A new start.

>>2984747
I'm doin' good. A bit fed up already with the overwhelming American patriotism.

>>2984755
The technology:
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/06/spacexs-falcon-heavy-most-powerful-private-rocket-ever/
http://www.universetoday.com/73536/nasa-considering-rail-gun-launch-system-to-the-stars/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article4799369.ece

The will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bIQLiKi3g
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/lord-british-wants-to-take-you-to-space-and-hes-closer-th
an-you-think.ars/3

The time (and one of the main kicks in the ass to get it started):
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029
http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3329065877451441972#
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans

The economic benefits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
>At 1997 prices, a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1 mile contains more than $20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Objects#Near-Earth_asteroids
>As of May 2010, 7,075 near-Earth asteroids are known,[14] ranging in size up to ~32 kilometers (1036 Ganymed).[16] The number of near-Earth asteroids over one kilometer in diameter is estimated to be 500 - 1,000.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/

>>2984799
Why so angry recently, CCM?

>>2800993
>Idiot, nuclear-powered factories don't produce smog they just make radioactive material.
Idiot, nuclear-powered factories don't use electricity to produce products they just make radioactive material
>And blowing up nukes would make the area inhabitable.
I'm sure that a few kilometers under the polar ice caps is prime real estate.

>>2622774
Oh my.

>>2014032
I'm slowly learning.

>>2008057
/sci/ has a hardon for a green and blue Mars.