Kevin Tarr wrote: > > Isn't the whole problem with Mars it's size and that > it has no inner fire like the earth does? > And no decent atmosphere, and too far away from the Sun to be heated, and no big moon to stabilize the spin axis, and to close to the asteroid belt to get smashed regularly by big rocks, etc > So true terra forming would be to mine the > asteroids and send the empty hulks to crash on Mars, > increasing it's size over a few hundred years. > No. The total mass of the asteroids is too small. I guess the purpose of mining asteroids is bringing organic molecules to Mars. Of course, by the time Humanity has the tech to move asteroids to Mars, it will be much cheaper to crack the rocks of Mars and transmutate the elements :-) > > I think Venus will be terra formed before Mars. The > atmosphere will be seeded with bio agents that covert > the poison gases to O2, N2, and water. > I imagine if that hasn't been done already - by accident :-( Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
