/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8046746
>God forgot to install a crank handle.
Not that anon but I keked heartily.

>>8048404
Thing is though it could work if we invested enough into it, really anything related to terraforming is "well, it's -technically- possible, but," and then a bunch of reasons why it's absurdly impractical or unrealistic. What's the issue with this plan is the way a nuclear detonation would eject material. I actually work with explosives for a living (well, partially) and a nuke is... well to put it in simple terms, the expansion is too goddamn fast. If you want to eject a lot of material the best way to do it is a slower explosion, something that builds up pressure and comes out as a wide, flat blob that carries a lot of material with it. Instead of a loud "bang" the explosion makes a hearty "whump" followed by a big geyser of soil/rock/whatever.

Off the top of my head you would need an absurd amount of small-yield devices drilled down far enough to get the desired results, but with unlimited time, money, and materials I think anyone with a bit of explosives know-how could pull it off.

>>8050169
>more importantly the electromagnetic radiation they give off does
Not the guy you're replying to but I thought the EM portion of a CME doesn't strip away nearly as much as the ejected particle stream, which is far, far more deadly according to everything I read. Even with an amazing as fuck ozone layer aren't GCR going to be blasting the surface of Mars with relativistic particles anyway? Martian architecture is going to be "anti-radiation" no matter how you slice it unless we somehow synthesize a magnetic field.