What about solar powered lasers from space pointed at mars poles?
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Good idea.
I think its great when people think like this, if we have millions of ideas put forward then even if only one percent are possible, we have made progress.
It is too easy for people to rubbish other peoples ideas, we should be encouraging them.
Way to go dude, dont stop.
I just wish that the Government would stop pointing them at my pole
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Make air?
Dude, seriously, are the ice caps even deep enough to cover Mars if melted?
What would be the point of the whole scenario?
If there was an ocean, there would be 'air' of some sort. If you're talking about air suitable for breathing, the gravity of Mars just isn't powerful enough to hold in an atmosphere that we could live on. There would have to be biospheres . . .
I just don't see the point of what you're saying. Bad question! Bad!
I seriously doubt that there is enough ice on the poles to even make a 1cm deep ocean. Where did u get xou info?
And using a laser is a bad idea, it would take far too much energy and time. A more simple way to heat up the poles would be to just send ofer some nukes. America has the nukes for that, and the russia the rockets.
Fantastic idea! Except:
-We don't lasers anywhere near powerful enough to heat whole oceans.
-Even if we melted the oceans, it's freeze up again soon enough. It's ice for a reason.
-Even if we could melt it to water, and sustain it forever, the planet's atmosphere still isn't livable.
The ideal way to terraform Mars is to create enough Greenhouse gases to form an atmosphere. That's a slow, long process - we're incapable of affecting the Greenhouse gases on our own planet, let alone creating a whole one from scratch on a different planet. Once we've done this, we wait around for a few centuries. And that's the quick method.
The polar ice caps on Mars may actually be frozen carbon dioxide. "Melting" them would release carbon dioxide gas making plant life possible. It sounds plausible to me, but I'm no astrophysicist.
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