"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
And even if it worked (and it would take a LOT of nukes to work) … well, congrats: now Mars has an atmosphere – a highly radioactive atmosphere.
Thanks to Mars’s lack of a magnetic field, high radiation levels are already a concern. Adding even more radiation into the mix really isn’t going to help any of your terraforming goals.
And even if it worked (and it would take a LOT of nukes to work) … well, congrats: now Mars has an atmosphere – a highly radioactive atmosphere.
Thanks to Mars’s lack of a magnetic field, high radiation levels are already a concern. Adding even more radiation into the mix really isn’t going to help any of your terraforming goals.
And that’s why we should just drop a few million cockroaches on Mars and let them figure it out! /s
Great. And now a few years later, Earth is being invaded by highly advanced mutant cockroaches from Mars.
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