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To: combjelly who wrote (886977)	9/11/2015 6:42:23 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1577380

Hardly - any minuscule amount of water or CO2 a nuke could put into the atmosphere would be blown away by a single burst in solar radiation or simply freeze and fall back to the surface. This of course ignores the obvious cost of even getting one nuke to mars - let alone enough to do any real terraforming. This also ignores the problem of rockets not quit leaving earths gravity and falling back with a nuke onboard - given his recent success with rockets - a very high probability. He would have to launch dozens of rockets daily during the short launch window during Mars opposition every 2 years. Then it would be 2 plus years before we could do it again - all our gains (if any) would probably be lost during that time.