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4370855 No.4370855 [Reply] [Original]

can we have a Mars terraforming thread

I forgot the name of a book someone recommended here, but it was about terraforming Mars. (a story?)

>> No.4370858

Fuck it, I'm bored, go ahead.

What is your big plan?

>> No.4370862
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4370862

>>4370855
>book
Maybe the trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars?

>> No.4370866

Use an array of thousands of lightweight panels of refractive material arranged in a colossal telescope/magnifying glass/lens to bombard a line around the planets surface with an intense heat beam. It will be hot enough to begin releasing water from the soils and eventually generating an atmosphere. Aim it right and it will constantly hit the planet in a spiral fashion as it rotates to cover a huge area.

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4370864

There's also a rather spectacularly failed attempt at martian terroforming described in the Chronicles of Solace trilogy.

>> No.4370867

>>4370858
send satellites in first for communication.
then many many capsules with supplies into the surface.
then specialists that can make a colony out of the supplies.

how does communication work from here to there anyway?

>>4370862
yeah Red Mars is the one. thanks

>> No.4370869

>>4370867
can microwave satellites help melt the polar ice caps?

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4370870

Did you mean fiction or a book looking into the science of terraforming mars?

>> No.4370871

>>4370870
anything related.

I'm looking to write fiction about it.

>> No.4370875

>>4370867
Thought you said terraforming not colonisation.

Microwave satellites require microwaves and electronics.

Lenses could sit happily for years bombarding the surface with no input.

Lens idea #2. They could all be tethered into a specially designed net into their appropriate positions. Once in position the shell and ship is disgarded. 4 thruster bots fly in respective directions to expand the net and tension it appropriately.

>> No.4370877

>>4370867 how does communication work from here to there anyway?

Slowly.

>then many many capsules with supplies into the surface.

Many many supplies needed at a many high cost

>> No.4370880

>>4370877
how exactly?

also as I understand, the window at which Earth and Mars are nearest to each other occurs every 26 years. is that right?

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>>4370880
No, it's once every 15-17 years.
Also, roughly every year, communication between Earth and Mars has to be done through relays which route it around the sun.

>> No.4370918

>>4370907
but communication is possible, right? okay.

that's pretty cool

>> No.4372756

Bump