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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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[–] belunos@lemmus.org 23 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 40 minutes ago

Our only hope would be to find a way to melt the core probably and a LOT of energy

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 points 8 hours 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.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Great. And now a few years later, Earth is being invaded by highly advanced mutant cockroaches from Mars.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 46 minutes ago

I wouldn't mind if they weren't fucking ugly

[–] wioum@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Terra Formars cockroach

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

A person of culture! Kookiburi!