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#1 2007-06-16 18:06:29

dryson
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From: Ohio
Registered: 2007-06-16
Posts: 104

Re: Terraforming

I was recently watching  a special on The History Channel about Mars and the polar caps. If what is
specualated about Mars' polar caps having hydrogen, and the other elements that make water, which when
coupled with the process of trees taking in carbon dioxide that produces sugar or energy along with creating
oxygen which every lifeform as we know it needs in order to survive  can show that by just taking maybe o
ne hundred tree saplings to Mars planting them close to the close the polar caps may initate the process
of producing a breatheable atmosphere like that of Earth. Of course irrigation would have to either be
designed and taken to Mars along with some glacial water, why glacial water, because glacial water
contains microbes that survive in that type of environment and would help in the growth of the trees.
Or irrigation could be designed to melt and would then be pumped from the Martian polar ice/water caps
to the roots of the tree.  The upside to this expieriment could possibly see the trees grow at a very
rapid state given that trees thrive on carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Perhaps this is why the Redwoods
in California grow like they do and are so enormous, they may have been the first trees to clean the
atmosphere of CO2 thus making oxygen that other lifeforms grew from. The down side is the PH level of \
the Martian soil, but the upside to this is when the glacial ice water along with the microbes and the
trees interact together the PH level may possibly be changed to suit the needs of the growing trees and
microbes. The only way to find out is by conducting the expierement on Mars.

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