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#1 2004-02-20 22:32:31

ArchAngel432
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From: Earth
Registered: 2004-02-20
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Re: Is NASA Already Terra-Forming Mars? - Could Be...

In the year 1999 and seven months
A great King of Terror will come from the sky.
He will bring back the great King Genghis Khan.
Before and after Mars rules happily.


[http://www.geocities.com/marsterraformi … rming.html]How do you begin [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/book.htm]Terra-Forming another planet? There is an ancient, but educational game that hopes to answer this question though simulation called [http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,1835/]SimEarth.  I can tell you that the in the begining the secret is to crash a [http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?sstr=76P]Comet into the planets. Many things will happen including depositing water and gasses, liberating elements and compounds stored underground, and raising the temperature. So lets crash a comet into Mars.

Unforutunately there is no remote-control for comets.

The plan would be to slingshot nukes off another planet and intercept the comet before it approached Mars and divert it into a [http://archangel.20megsfree.com/neoJune2k.gif]collision path. The mission begins in [Aprox]December 1998 when the first [http://www.iki.rssi.ru/jplmirror/mars/m … unch2.html]interceptor is launched. It will carry at least two independent craft with warheads, and control systems linked through high speed communication. A secondary will be [http://www.iki.rssi.ru/jplmirror/mars/m … unch2.html]launched in January of 1999.

In September of 1999 the first interceptor will [http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric/]slingshot around Mars and head towards the comet. The second will [http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/s … 00106.html]follow in december dropping at least two small [http://www.spacekids.com/spacenews/deep … 91130.html]probes as it slingshots around. During the next few months they would adjust their heading, then deploy the independently controled warheads. Observed through a [http://hubblesite.org/]telescope and controled via [http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/]radio the warheads will be detonated near the comet to change its path. The secondaries can do any final corrections after observations by the telescope.

To bad the impact will happen just after the [http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/~summers/viz/may_5_2000/]Grand Conjuction so Mars will be in the Halo of the sun so no one will [http://www.ntv.co.jp/channel/kasoh/kin10.html]see it  .

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#2 2004-02-23 14:30:18

Earthfirst
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From: Phoenix Arizona
Registered: 2002-09-25
Posts: 343

Re: Is NASA Already Terra-Forming Mars? - Could Be...

I own sim earth and played that mars simulation, it not quiet a best repersenative of terriforming mars. In the game there is mars and it look just like it should, in the atmosphere control the insulation is cap at a low level, and the greenhouse effect is too. But you increase or decrease them to simulate like having an orbital mirror. Also no matter how much co2 you add the temp never increase beyond a low temp. On a real mars the greenhouse effect would goe up as you added more co2 to the air. Also there is no polar caps of water or co2, in the regoth. So you have too use ice metors, to get water. The simulation is not the best but it is pretty good for an 1990 game.
Now if they only would come out with an updated versen, with todays better game sofhtware, mars simulation could be better created!


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