Elon Musk and nuking Mars-planet and terraformation of other words

Elon Musk and nuking Mars-planet and terraformation of other words

Elon Musk has introduced an idea, that we would nuke planet Mars, but the thing is that if we would want to just remove our nukes by exploding them the Sun would be better placed for that kind of an operation because the influence of those explosives would be minimum in that case. But in the case of terraforming the red planet, the nukes would be an effective way to sterilize the core of that planet.

The thing is that if we would like to terraform some other planet and live on its surface as we have lived on Earth, we must realize that there would be a problem with that thing. That problem is the primitive lifeforms, what can live on that planet, and one version of those lifeforms might be lifeform, what has been traveled on that world with a badly sterilized space probe. That thing can cause the evolution, that the bacteria would turn dangerous.

The problem of that thing would be the nuclear winter and a huge cloud of dust on that planet, which means that the increasing the carbon dioxide level on the atmosphere would take longer in that case. So nuking planet Mars would not have hoped effect. The thing is that before we can begin the terraformation, we must be sure, that there would not be any bacteria, what can cause infections.

But that thing is ahead in the distant future. If we would want to nuke some planet and hope to do something positive, we might think planet Venus. On the surface of that planet, the extreme nuclear winter might have a good effect and that would be a positive thing for hypothetical colonization of the planet Venus. But the radioactive cloud and waste would be problematic, and that's why we should forget those ideas of nuking some planets. But what kind of process the terraformation of the planet Venus could be?

Mars has very weak gravity and the problem is that the atmosphere would escape to space. And that's why the terraformation of Mars is quite difficult. So in the point of view of the stabilizing the atmosphere, Venus would be a more suitable planet for terraformation than Mars, because of stronger gravity guarantees that the atmosphere would not escape to space.

The planet Venus would have similar gravity field with Earth, and the problem is the extreme heat in the atmosphere of that planet. The idea would be simple, the carbon dioxide atmosphere would be filtered by using chemical filter and bacteria, what isolates oxygen from the carbon dioxide. And the level of the radiation would be decreased by using some big asteroid or mylar layer, which denies the sunlight from the planet.

Those layers could be like solar sails, but their mission would decrease the level of sunlight. And on the atmosphere would send the laboratories, what is connected with airships. In those laboratories would be grown the photosynthetic bacteria and cells, what mission is to increase the oxygen level on the atmosphere of planet Venus. Also, the sulfur eating bacteria, what would terminate the sulfur acid from the clouds of Venus, and the mylar layers would decrease the level of radiation, that the surface temperature of Venus would be decreased.

Sometimes I think that maybe someday in the future, would many other planets terraformed, and some of them might be members of other solar systems. In those cases, the surface of the planets might be sterilized by using high-power microwaves, because that denies the infections of the dangerous bacteria. But in those cases, we must feel a very great responsibility, because if we would create the new Earth, should we continue our lifestyle in that new same way as people have done on Earth.

What if there are some primitive but at the same way intelligent habitants? Should we play god to them and give every kind of technology in their hands, or wait that they could learn to make things on their own? This is the problem in the colonization of the Universe. But it is also been a problem with the relationship with Europeans and native people on the Earth.

And somebody has introduced a nice idea, that the human race is some kind of primitive villain on the Universe, and humanoids would follow, how we advancing. Maybe that is true maybe not, but this is one thing, what we should think if we someday will travel to the stars. In those cases, we could be the superior humanoids for some primitive humanoid race, and that's the thing, what we should think. Should we play god or let those beings alone? And should we destroy things like asteroids what are threating those aliens?

What if we would someday travel to the stars as the routine operation?

What if we would someday travel to the stars as the routine operation?

In the "What if" channel was a tale about the situation, that someday we maybe can travel around the galaxy by using the speed, what is over the speed of light. In fact, if we someday could make those journeys, we must understand that real opportunity to the journeys to another star was reserved to the colonialists and scientists. In this version, there would not any tourist trips around the universe, and the reason for establishing the colonies would be that the growing population of the planet Earth and mankind need more and more fuel and raw materials for supporting our life form, and enlarging the circle of mankind.

And here we must ask, why we haven't traveled to another solar system yet. The reason for that is that there are no close solar systems, where we could fly in the humane time, and that's why we haven't created that technology. Actually, we haven't yet found any suitable planet for colonization. That's why we have not created technology for interplanetary traveling.

If we are thinking about the suitable engines for that journey, there could be possible to use photon- or radio wave engines, but the thrust of the photons or radio waves is so little, that there would need to use another motor to increase the speed of the spacecraft in the level of 99% of the speed of light. And then the photon rocket would increase the speed of the craft to the speed of light. The thing in the interplanetary spacecraft would be vehicles, which is a very big size.

The nuclear engines might open the route to the entire solar system

There is a possibility that those very large spacecraft would ever land on some planets and the resupplying of those crafts would happen in the orbital trajectories, and they would use ion or some other more conventional motors for traveling in our solar system. And we must handle the interplanetary traveling before we can fly to another solar system. When we are thinking the ion motors, we could operate them by using the solar panels, and giant fuel cells, but the real suitable thing for that engine will be a lightweight nuclear reactor, what would use Plutonium or some other extreme heavy element, like Neptunium or Einsteinium as the fuel.

This kind of systems could be possible in the distant future. When we are thinking about the NERVA system, there is a possibility to use that engine in the Mars trips, but for the more distance, there is a need to use more effective systems. And if we would think the extra stellar journey, we might face the thing, that the needed systems would be more complicated than some ion motors, what allows the spacecraft travel in the interplanetary missions.

The energy source for the WARP system is problematic

But for the interstellar journey would need to create vehicles, what are more enormous, than those interplanetary vehicles can ever be, and the size of those vehicles would be over 100 kilometers long because there is a need to create the storage of fuel, equipment, and life support systems. The fuel, what those vehicles use would be antimatter because the self-sustained fusion is very hard to create.

The WARP-drive would need very high voltage to create the speed, what crosses the speed of light, and the thing is that those systems, what would be magnet tracks, what are similar with MDD (Magneto Dynamic Drive) drive, what is used in the ships need the extremely high voltage to suck the ions through the tube with the speed of the light. The thing, what makes this drive problematic is that there must be very high voltage magnets, that enough ions could travel through the track, that the speed of the spacecraft would rise in the short period, that means a couple of years.

If the system uses antimatter, in the case of the explosion the entire planet would be in danger. In this scenario, the antimatter would be stored in the magnetic bottle, where it lays in the middle of the bottle. And if there are problems with those magnets, the antimatter would contact with the core of the bottle, and the spacecraft would turn to energy in the annihilation reaction.

The idea of the WARP is that the magnets will suck the ions through the tube, and that would give the spacecraft the speed of light, and the system is similar, what is used in the hypothetical submarine in the Tom Clancy's book "Hunt for the Red October". The thing is that in the water is no need for the very high voltage because water is a thinner element than space, where are fewer ions than in the water.

Colonialists could make Dyson's spheres by using hollow graved asteroids, which are used as artificial planets.

But when we are thinking about the colonization of the entire galaxy the journeys between the stars would take so long time, that the journeys between the stars would be one-way trips, and that's why the planets, what are orbiting those stars should be habitable. Or there is one very fascinating way to habitable the solar systems.

And that thing is to create the own planet by making some asteroid hollow. After that, the colonialists would transfer a couple of icy comets inside that asteroid, what is working as Dyson's sphere. This kind of colonization would make possible to conquer other solar systems, there are no planets in the habitable zone. In this hypothesis, the colonialists would make the colonies to many other solar systems by using this technology, where the hollow asteroids would use as the planets. Those Dyson's spheres would rotate with the speed, which makes the artificial gravity to the inner layer of that ball, and the colonialists would live in that base, in similar conditions with Earth.