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Re: And now for something completely different...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:36:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jason Maxwell writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Steven Lane writes:
> > > Quite recently their was a thread on planet moving and I have anoher idea.
> > > Place a ring of powerful hydrogen fueled rocket motors around the Martian
> > > equator and fire them in sequence when the planets rotation brings them
> > > round to the front. You could then slow the planet bringing it's orbit
> > > closer to the sun therby brining it into the crucial temperate region
> > > surruonding the sun. Once their simply speed the planet up again. You might
> > > need a chimney to get the rocket eflux above the atmosphere. It would
> > > probably take ages but the effects shoud be cumalative.
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> > And change the entire gravitational map of the solar system? No thanks. I
> > don't think we could calculate the possible repercuissions of such a move...
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> Better yet, we could move the Sun closer to Mars. Honestly, I should
> work for NASA.
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> Dave!
Actually, I was just thinking the other day. If we used he material from
asteroids to build a huge lense we could maybe terraform Mars just by
heating it up and melting the ice at the poles, releasing carbon dioxide
etc. This would be the equivalent of moving Mars closer to the Sun.
Steve
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