Chapter 8 20 Ways to Change Mars
Of course, just landing on Mars is not the ultimate wish of mankind.
In order to be able to go to Mars and "get it and live there", on April 1, 2025, BIPU began to "do things" and solicit plans for "transforming Mars" from formal scientific research institutions around the world.
Unexpectedly, in just three months, the organizers received more than 6,000 proposals from various scientific research units (not civil science), and finally 20 programs were selected, they are:
β Option 1: Build a very large mirror and orbit it over Mars to raise the temperature of Mars.
β Method 2: Discharge 1,000 tons of carbon tetrafluoride into the Martian atmosphere every hour, and the average temperature of Mars will increase by 27.8 degrees in 30 years, and then we can stop the production of greenhouse gases, because Mars's own solid dry ice will enter the atmosphere in large quantities.
β Method three: Place a giant magnet on the Lagrange point of Mars (sorry, I don't understand either). The position of this magnet relative to the systems of Mars and the Sun remains the same, or is relatively stationary. Then, using this magnet can help Mars resist the solar wind, and then hold the Martian atmosphere.
β Method 4: Sow plants on Mars on a large area. Of course, not all plants may be suitable for growing on Mars at first, but scientists have simulated that there is one type of vegetation that will flourish on Mars: mosses. With moss, even if the ecology of Mars is completely changed, other plants, animals, and microorganisms will be transported to Mars by launch vehicles one after another, and finally Mars will be transformed into a habitable planet.
β Method 5: Use advanced robots to mine the elements in the Martian rocks, the main target is fluorine (fΓΊ), because perfluorinated compounds are super greenhouse gases that can produce a greenhouse effect thousands of times stronger than carbon dioxide. If the surface of Mars were filled with this chemical, it would capture more heat than all the explosions of nuclear weapons on Earth in just four hours when the sun shines. Huge condensers have also been set up at the poles of Mars to collect the sun's rays.
β Method 6: Launch a lot of space equipment around Mars to build an artificial magnetic field for Mars to resist the solar wind. The temperature and pressure on Mars have become suitable for human life, but the carbon dioxide in the air is still too high, and settlers no longer need to wear bulky protective suits, but they still need to wear oxygen masks to go outdoors.
β Method 7: Place a thin layer of silica aerogel on or on the surface of Mars, so as to effectively make some areas of Mars habitable at a relatively low cost. This insulating silica aerogel is enough to raise the earth's surface temperature enough to melt water ice and also block harmful ultraviolet radiation, creating an environment where plants and other photosynthetic organisms can thrive.
β Method 8: Select suitable asteroids for Mars through artificial operations, and then let Mars enter the "planetary impact" link to increase the mass of Mars. Build an "artificial sun" that will provide the right temperature for Mars.
β Method 9: Deliver an asteroid to hit Mars and reactivate the Martian metal core, so as to reproduce the Martian magnetic field.
β Method 10: Place a powerful electromagnet in the habitable area of Mars, and then generate a magnetic field to protect the colonists from the harmful effects of solar radiation, this method is extremely feasible and can be achieved by existing technical means.
β Method 11: Deliver the compressed electrostatic cotton and cotton opener to Mars orbit by rocket, and then create artificial space clouds, so as to transform Mars into a planet suitable for human habitation.
β Method 12: (suspected of plagiarizing SpaceX CEO Elon Musk) Build two nuclear heating devices at the north and south poles of Mars, thus creating a greenhouse effect.
β Method 13: Launch satellites in orbit carrying solar reflectors to heat up Mars and transform its environment. Or a constant fusion explosion above the Martian atmosphere, producing extremely low levels of radioactive fallout, creating an artificial sun (nuclear device).
β Method 14: Build a glass dome, Mars provides all the raw materials needed to make glass, metal and plastic. These materials can be used to construct transparent domed houses, and finally to achieve planting and maintenance of life support systems in glass houses with transparent domes.
β Plan 15: Dig a basement of tens of thousands of square meters on Mars, build a closed house of tens of thousands of square meters above the entrance, live in it first, and transport soil and microorganisms from the earth to cultivate, plant plants, and build an ecological environment in a small area.
β Method 16: Make a sheet of paint that can cover most of Mars, a film that reflects heat radiation and envelops it over Mars. In this way, most of the heat of Mars can be retained and not quickly dissipated into space.
β Method 17: Install magnetic field equipment in the orbit of the two poles of Mars to artificially generate the magnetic field. If you can, pushing an asteroid near Mars, like the Wandering Earth, to form the planet Mars is also a way to reactivate the Martian magnetic field.
β Method 18: First of all, raise the surface temperature of Mars, let the ice sheet melt, keep liquid water on the surface of Mars, and create a greenhouse effect. Then plant some lower plants on it, slowly change the atmosphere, raise the temperature, and make Mars close to the Earth.
β Method 19: Transferring a large number of cyanobacteria to Mars can bring oxygen to Mars, and it can also make the soil on Mars very fertile, which will also help us human development and survival.
β Method 20: You can start to plant mosses on Mars, and then gradually plant other plants on Mars, and when there are more and more plants on Mars, the carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere will drop little by little, and the oxygen will increase little by little.
However, some scientists scoff at these whimsical ideas, believing that the current human technology is not enough to transform Mars, especially some fanatical folk science,
They believe that there are unattainable methods such as capturing satellites and altering Mars with tens of thousands of tons of devices, and that if they knew that it would be difficult to transport a gram of something tens of millions of kilometers, they would not have come up with those ridiculous and generous ideas.
As for Elon Musk's idea of blowing up the poles of Mars with 10,000 nuclear bombs, even if it works, how can 10,000 nuclear bombs be sent to Mars? Isn't that?
In their opinion, the transformation of Mars is a fool's dream. Mars is a dangerous planet, and very low atmospheric pressure can cause your blood to boil; No matter what the temperature is outside, the atmosphere, which is mostly made up of carbon dioxide, will suffocate you if you try to breathe; On the first night when the temperature drops to Antarctic levels, you can freeze to death; You can also be exposed to radiation poisoning or cancer.
Of course, it is best to be able to establish a closed base on Mars, and its biggest advantage is that it is completely enclosed, and it can completely produce the same air pressure, temperature, humidity, light and other conditions as the earth, and does not have to be affected by the harsh environment outside Mars.
Of course, some people have found another way and proposed another plan: if we want to transform Mars, can't we transform humans and adapt them to Mars?
For example, the Mariana Trench, the deepest known deepest part of the deep seabed, sits at a depth of 10,909 meters, and is a world full of high pressure, pitch black and cold. At the bottom of the trench is a huge water pressure of up to 1100 atmospheres, usually at a temperature of only 2 Β° C.
And there, you can actually see some small telepods, which are shrimp-like crustaceans with a body length of about 2-5 centimeters.
There are more than 900 species of water bears, which can be found in the Arctic, tropics, deep sea, and hot springs.
It can survive for 2 minutes at -272Β°C and 151Β°C, a few days at -200Β°C, and at least 30 years at -20Β°C. It is capable of withstanding hundreds of times the dose of ionizing radiation that is lethal to humans. It can withstand 6,000 atmospheres. It is capable of withstanding hundreds of times the dose of ionizing radiation that is lethal to humans. It can not require water, oxygen for a long time.
Can't we think backwards, so that humanity can't change and adapt to Titan?
Unexpectedly, he immediately applied this kind of thinking.