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kleinbl00  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Possible Biosignatures Found in Spirit Rover's Data

About 20 years back I read an article in Analog proposing that terraforming Mars could most easily be effected by causing an artificial greenhouse effect via carpetbombing the place with millions upon millions of megatons of thermonuclear weapons.

It'd sure free up some sequestered oxygen and nitrogen, you betcha.





user-inactivated  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That'd be a (very expensive) way to dispose of nukes without worrying about NIMBYism, at least.

kleinbl00  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. I have seen similar proposals to dispose of nuclear waste by launching it into the sun.

what could go wrong