/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4017575
>Mercury terraforming seems absurd, but temporary martian terraforming seems possible.
May I just comment on how wonderful it is that we're discussing transforming an entire planet to become habitable with everyone taking it quite seriously in this day and age?

>Seel a few rockets of CFC's are enough to warm up mars enough to sublime the massive dry ice seas at the poles.
I'm pretty sure it'll take far more than a few rockets.

I also fear that unless you add extra sunlight to Mars, even if only a few percentage points, that the atmosphere will soon begin freezing out again.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" - Apollo 14 astronaut, Edgar Mitchell

1) Yes.
2) First in line.

>>3950954

here is your mission to Mars

http://costofwar.com/en/