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Re: Comet steering & "the Mars Trilogy"
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Originally Posted by CraigD
I don’t think this is true.
The various “watering/atmosphere-thickening” plans involving colliding KBOs (comets) with Mars don’t involve impacts that would damage Mars so much that it would need to “reform”, nor do they propose to duplicate the natural evolution of a biosphere. They simply propose to – quickly, within decades and centuries, not thousands and millions of years - add water and gas to create more human-friendly surface conditions. |
I don't think this will ever be enough, You cannot just add water and gas and expect to initiate the dynamics of a cyclical ecosphere upon a static undersize dead rock.
You would need to add enough mass initiate a cataclysmic planetary melt down, and reboot the entire system, and start from scratch.
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