- cross-posted to:
- science@beehaw.org
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- science@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/546668
If so, this should not preclude us from cleaning up our own planet first!
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/546668
If so, this should not preclude us from cleaning up our own planet first!
I dont think it’ll ever happen. Mars doesnt have a magnetosphere and as a result solar winds would erode away the added gasses and water vapor we manage to add into the system. Even if we were able to manage to get a breathable replenishing atmosphere I imagine the solar radiation would do bad things to us. We’d need like science fiction levels of shielding to keep it livable and we’d need to reach far off sci-fi levels of technology.
I imagine since there is an atmosphere that a pressurized dome city would be less fragile than say a structure on the moon since little holes and leaks wouldnt lead to dramatic explosive decompression. So colonization might be pretty doable but I think a green mars is unlikely.
My dream is covered canyons with cliff dwellings. But I would settle for a dome+tunnel city.
Dome cities would be much more achievable, but still incredibly difficult unfortunately. It’s cool to think it may be feasible in the next generation or two.