/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11433811
It is literally impossible to do that in the time frame you suggest simply due to physics. In fact, terraforming Mars legitimately is going to be one of those things that humanity can't really do and if we try, it will be tragic that such a money sink was even attempted.

Want another kicker? Those glass domes in your image wouldn't be what people would live in or anything. The reality is that they'd live in caves. Either literal caves or just ISS type modules with no windows and tons of shielding against radiation. You wouldn't be able to grow anything with direct light simply because the window shielding needed to stop the harmful radiation would stop too much light for plant growth. Oh, people may build such glass domes and it may look cool as fuck, until that is people start getting cancer due to the higher radiation exposure.

That's the problem with most places in the solar system. There's just too much radiation for legit usable windows. So, you will end up with a space civilization living in space caves. Which sucks.

>>11367581
Jupiter would help balance things out, but the mass would need to come from somewhere. Check the right side of this image.

>>10255772
We can't even terraform Mars in the manner that you're image suggests that the Moon is terraformed.

>>10250302
We can't.

>>10218524
We are not going to terraform Mars. Why isn't there a /popsci/ or /sci-fi/ board?

>>10157405
>We need to smash a water moon like Europa into it and see if that can kickstart geological activity.

It is worse than that actually. I doubt it is even possible at all.

>>10088210
>terraforming mars

laughable

>>9924509
Jello Babies BTFO.

>>9913107
>>9913086
>mars

Good luck with that.

>>9665436
>develop technology to terraform other planets

Don't hold your breath.

>>9609837
>terraform Mars

>>9555904
>reshaping Mars/Venus/asteroids/moons into a bunch of pleasant little Earth clones?

Sending colonists away would be super cheap and economical compared to terraforming anything ever.