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[forever freedom]

Martian soil 'could support life'


Well, at least Asparagus.

[Cyberbrain]

At least we'll have something to eat "P

Nice find sam!

[maestro949]

As soon as we can replicate the environment we should create a terrestrial biosphere and use directed evolution to engineer microbes and plant life that could survive in the harsh conditions. Once we have some thriving microbes - shoot them to Mars. A few billion years later they may evolve into something that looks at Earth and ponders whether it ever had life

[VictorBjoerk]

If it's possible to transform Mars to a place where humans and animals can live and breathe the same should apply to Venus which is not too close to the sun....

[forever freedom]

Venus would be much harder than Mars to inhabit. But yes with enough technology, we could even live in Pluto.

I liked this picture of what Venus' surface is supposed to be (looks like the planet Crematoria from "The Chronicles of Riddick"):




And what it really looks like, taken by some russian probe that landed there:

Edited by sam988, 27 June 2008 - 08:02 PM.

[jCole]

This is excellent, because now we have a monetary benefit to colonizing mars, along with a means of supporting such a endeavor.

Private industry will be all over this.

[forever freedom]

This is excellent, because now we have a monetary benefit to colonizing mars, along with a means of supporting such a endeavor.

Private industry will be all over this.

I don't think that industries will want to colonize mars just to do some aspargus plantation. But seriously, this finding doesn't change much, although it's certainly great news. But a lot still needs to be done.

[jCole]

This is excellent, because now we have a monetary benefit to colonizing mars, along with a means of supporting such a endeavor.

Private industry will be all over this.

I don't think that industries will want to colonize mars just to do some aspargus plantation. But seriously, this finding doesn't change much, although it's certainly great news. But a lot still needs to be done.

I'm talking about resources in general to setup shop.

That was the major hurdle and/or problem with colonizing Mars to begin with.... is there resources to even sustain a colony? The answer is now yes.

I'll dig up the article, but there are many other resources they have been discovering on Mars in the recent weeks, that can be mined for use in various fabrication processes.


Obviously non of this will happen anytime soon, but Mars is at least feasible, in terms of setting up/supporting a colony and subsequent mining operations.

I'm thinking long term here.

Edited by jCole, 22 August 2008 - 06:02 PM.

[forever freedom]

Yes, you're right jCole. This raised another question that i don't know why i didn't think of before. But that's for another topic, which i just made by the way.