Sorry, we can't terraform Mars

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  1. hoosier88

    hoosier88 Well-Known Member

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    Yah. Read Red Mars - apparently a space elevator could also be used as a whip delivery system, to fire cargo to desired locations. It would take a lot of fine control & computational effort. The novel posits that it would make sense to build an elevator on Mars first, then with that experience & materials science, build one (or more) on Earth, then on the Moon, & so on. Lots of interesting ideas there.

    Offhand, on solar energy, I'd say build rings of collectors & xmitters in synchronous Earth orbit, & beam the power down to the poles or to rectannae on mountains. The important thing is to get up there & start doing, the sooner the better.
     
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