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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Mars doesn't even have a magnetosphere, any atmosphere you create would fuck right off into space

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And even if it worked (and it would take a LOT of nukes to work) ... well, congrats: now Mars has an atmosphere -- a highly radioactive atmosphere.

    Thanks to Mars's lack of a magnetic field, high radiation levels are already a concern. Adding even more radiation into the mix really isn't going to help any of your terraforming goals.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    And that's why we should just drop a few million cockroaches on Mars and let them figure it out! /s

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    If you make it fast enough it will stick around for a while. "A while" in planetary terms can be a few hundred thousand or million years. So it's possible you could produce sufficient atmosphere to make it breathable, and it would remain so for longer than human civilization up to now. Of course, by possible, I mean with the right tools and the resources to support that, which would be substantial. Feel free to find out how many comets you would have to impact into Mars to get that.

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