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Hijacking the Red Planet

An ambitious plan to make Mars inhabitable in just 1,000 years

Posted 1.19.07 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

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Option A: Orbiting Mirrors

Temperatures on the Martian equator already touch 32
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Option C: Global Warming, The Earth Remix
Joel Hagen
The best way to warm a planet-Earth, for example-is with strong artificial greenhouse gases. With evidence gleaned from our own global warming, scientists have a good idea of which emissions are best suited for climate change. Zubrin, among others, believes tetrafluoromethane (CF4) is the best gas for the global-warming job. Twentieth-century thinking says factories are the best way to create emissions. So Zubrin proposes building several chemical plants on Mars to release fluoromethane continuously. Emitting 1,000 tons of gas an hour would raise the temperature by 50
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