evolution isn't quick, i guess you could check back in a couple million years to see if something developed from all that bacteria.
There's no benefit to justify the cost.Somebody would have to eat the cost and turn it into a contest
the moon and Mars don't have the environments to nurture life, as far as I know.
if you could find a planet or moon with earth-like conditions, it might be different.
Pessimist, Elon said he could create a colony on Mars, and I implicitly believe him.
He should go right now, to prove you wrong.
All of his rockets are 100% safe, especially the Xplodatron 9000 prepared for his historic mission.
Yea yea finding alien life is great and all but if we been to the moon and mars and know it isn't there just start shooting warheads full of goop of bacteria and other micro organisms then later we check up on them and maybe eventually they evolve and we made our OWN aliens in the image of man fucking kind and in no way will this come back to bite us no way I know this is a great idea and
Even the simplest lifeforms would need a livable environment to get that ball rolling. You can't just fire a couple million tons of manure at the moon and expect it to turn that airless rock into a rainforest in a couple billion years or something like that.
the moon and Mars don't have the environments to nurture life, as far as I know.theoretically you could heat up mars with enough nukes, build up enough of an atmosphere you could support life. alternatively you could maybe seed microbial life into the upper atmosphere of venus, a planet that might actually be a more realistic colony choice if you're willing to try the cloud city approach.
if you could find a planet or moon with earth-like conditions, it might be different.
Well... about that...
A whole bunch of microbes might be what you need to get a breathable (by our standards) atmosphere.
One of the first mass extinctions here, was because of that disgusting, corrosive, toxic, gas, oxygen.
Again, wheres the water?I've played Planet Crafter, all you have to do is start building a ton of drills and furnaces and the water will appear
theoretically you could heat up mars with enough nukes, build up enough of an atmosphere you could support life. alternatively you could maybe seed microbial life into the upper atmosphere of venus, a planet that might actually be a more realistic colony choice if you're willing to try the cloud city approach.hmm, interesting
Again, wheres the water?
I don't think there'd be too much benefit here, as others have stated
But I think it's also relevant to point out that not only do we not currently intentionally do this, we make significant efforts to not do it. probes, landers, etc undergo pretty serious decontamination procedures to try and prevent accidentally bringing microbes and spores and stuff to other planets
just start shooting warheads full of goopKeep it in your pants, Earth.
theoretically you could heat up mars with enough nukes
build up enough of an atmosphere you could support life.
alternatively you could maybe seed microbial life into the upper atmosphere of venus, a planet that might actually be a more realistic colony choice if you're willing to try the cloud city approach.
Not going to lie, not in the mood for research tonight. Arguably potential water resources on various bodies?
Water is everywhere. That's not the problem. Water is on mars. It's on the moon. Pluto is basically 100% water.
The problem is that it's all frozen. That's not helpful.
Potentially fine as a base resource.
Fine, as in barely an inconvenience, compared to all the other issues involved in such an endeavour anyway.
Flip that hypothesis around and answer your own question.
How would you feel if aliens sent some device to Earth that gestated flora and fauna from its world here?
what if they did and you exist cause some alien blew their snot on a rag?Well Id be for that.
I mean it's the single biggest block to seeding life. Things only get more difficult when you start talking about trying to send people to those planets. By restricting this exercise to unmanned craft and something like bacterial endospores, assuming unlimited resources making this strictly an engineering problem, the water is your stopping point.
No you can't. Even if you had more nukes than the Earth is capable of producing, nukes are destructive to the atmosphere. Nukes might help up to a point, after a while, you're just creating a vacuum full of radiation.eh, if you're already at the point of moving that many nukes to mars then you're also at the point you can mine other planets for the needed resources.
Venus is a non starter discussion. If you want a floating city, you'll have to do it in orbit.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Altitude_Venus_Operational_Concept
theoretically you could heat up mars with enough nukes, build up enough of an atmosphere you could support life. alternatively you could maybe seed microbial life into the upper atmosphere of venus, a planet that might actually be a more realistic colony choice if you're willing to try the cloud city approach.It would be short term. Mars core is dead or is weak meaning what ever you atmosphere you build will evaporate over time.
Yea yea finding alien life is great and all but if we been to the moon and mars and know it isn't there
The problem is that it's all frozen. That's not helpful.a couple of hair dryers set on high should do the trick.
Jupiter
Jupiter has hostile radiation that makes it nearly impossible for spacecrafts to even get near it. If it were a little bigger, it would be a Brown Dwarf Star.
Jupiter has hostile radiation that makes it nearly impossible for spacecrafts to even get near it. If it were a little bigger, it would be a Brown Dwarf Star.I would like to see the inside of one of those.
Everything we know about biology tells us that liquid water is necessary for life. It is actually the only thing that is mandatory. Everything else is negotiable, including things like atmospheric oxygen. Liquid water is not.In our solar system. But we have detected planets with water in other systems. We even apparently found an ocean planet. Not sure how they can tell but I heard it supposedly has zero land. Just an entire world of ocean
Guess what Earth has a lot of that other planets have zero of?
Mars no longer has a magnetic field, so it can't keep it's atmosphereIs it possible to make it have a new magnetic field? Can we create one?
Is it possible to make it have a new magnetic field? Can we create one?It's core cooled and solidified long ago. Maybe it's not big enough to keep it's core active
Is it possible to make it have a new magnetic field? Can we create one?
We should leave clues in their genetic code so that they have to work together to eventually realize the truth
Is it possible to make it have a new magnetic field? Can we create one?https://medium.com/our-space/an-artificial-martian -magnetosphere-fd3803ea600c
Pessimist, Elon said he could create a colony on Mars, and I implicitly believe him.
He should go right now, to prove you wrong.
All of his rockets are 100% safe, especially the Xplodatron 9000 prepared for his historic mission.