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- From: seward@CCVAX1.NCSU.EDU (Bill Seward)
- Subject: Re: Terraforming
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.193831.6728@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: Surely you jest.
- References: <1992Jul22.183853.152911@cs.cmu.edu>
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:38:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.183853.152911@cs.cmu.edu>, amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk writes:
- >Dr. Zubrin pointed out some interesting facts in his luncheon talk at
- >the 1992 ISDC.
- >
- >If you raise the temperature of Mars by ~ 5C, it will go into a
- >runaway greenhouse that will not stop until all the CO2 is gaseous.
- [ technical details tossed]
-
- OK, let's grant that we could perform these actions with current technology,
- given sufficient political will/$$. Since Mars has less gravity (no flames,
- I know that isn't the right way to put it), how long could we expect this
- new atmosphere to last? Generations, centuries, what?
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