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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (887573)9/14/2015 3:11:14 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574854
 
Without something even close to being useful (if not breathable) for colonization, what's the point except to use Mars' atmosphere as a gigantic experiment?

I listed reasons in the post. I guess you just skipped over them. Suffice it to say that it wouldn't just be an experiment.

You think nuking the planet just to release some sources of CO2 is going to do it?

And another straw man strides onto the field! The crowd goes wild!

Of course, no one made that claim but you. Elon said it would speed the process. And it would. There is a lot of CO2 tied up at the poles. That doesn't mean it wouldn't be supplemented with NH3 and chlorofluorocarbon compounds. The idea is to pump out enough greenhouse gases to get the temperature up so the rest of the CO2 at the poles would sublimate. That raises the atmospheric pressure to the point of being useful.
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