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Re:Science upside for Starship by wongarsu on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:58PM (#29310931)
If you can heat the planet up, you can start redirecting comets or asteroids rich in water ice and frozen CO2 into it to get a thicker atmosphere.
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Re:Science upside for Starship by cnlevy on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:35PM (#29311824)
I'm looking for the day where 1000 Starships pull a million ton ice asteroid into Mars in order to thicken its atmosphere.
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Re:Science upside for Starship by Valgrim on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:03AM (#29316850)
A million tons of ice would add more or less the water content of a medium-small fishing pond on the whole planet (or a cube with 100 meter sides).

The order of magnitude of would require stripping Ceres of it's mantle.

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