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Nov 19 2010 04:26pm
Quote (totallyclueless @ Nov 15 2010 11:03pm)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_one_way_to_mars;_ylt=AkBiBWfgjZTFk_BAcSmaDFKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFpcjRoMTVjBHBvcwMzNgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDc2NpZW50aXN0c3By?ref=nf


what you guys think?


i think your link is broken
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Nov 19 2010 05:02pm
Quote (AiNedeSpelCzech @ Nov 19 2010 04:37pm)
lol wat

I mean, sure, but so are "Modem" and "Ethernet" and all sorts of other words related to technology. :( Terraform has been in the OED for over 60 years.


Modem and Ethernet are things that actually exist.

Terraform is a madeup word for something that doesn't exist...
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Nov 19 2010 05:38pm
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Modem and Ethernet are things that actually exist.

Terraform is a madeup word for something that doesn't exist...


Terraform is a word for describing the process of making a planet more earth like. Now if we discarded all words because what they describe is hypothetical or theoretical that would just be dumb.
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Quote (ZeroCc @ Nov 19 2010 06:02pm)
Modem and Ethernet are things that actually exist.

Terraform is a madeup word for something that doesn't exist...


From your argument, I can only assume that you don't understand how words work. If people have an understanding that an ordered assortment of letters has a specific meaning, that ordered assortment of letters is called a "word." Therefore, terraforming is a word, and that word actually exists.
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Nov 19 2010 10:26pm
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Quote (ZvLoD @ Nov 18 2010 04:09pm)
Sounds good. If they made it to the moon in the time it took them, then we can probably make it to Mars. They jsut better be willing to die, or be best friends with the people they're going with for a long ass time.

And also, we could Terraform mars in about 100 years. Build a shitload of powerplants to put Co2 into the atmosphere and eventually it'll heat up enough for the ice caps to melt. I think we've got pretty good at that.


na,

Mars had an atmosphere once and it got blown away cause mars lost its molten core and thus lots is magnetic field, The only way we could create a atmosphere on mars if we some how used a device that created a magnetic field that protected the planet from the constant abuse from the sun if not the excess gasses will get blown off whats on the planet now is the max there can be with gravity alone. the sun is > then gravity with out the magnetic field

only thing we could do realistically is live in massive radiation protecting domes or live under ground in a network of caves, most likely by one of the ice caps to convert the ice into O2, water,and hydrogen for energy / fuel
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