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Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by Sparkyte on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:53PM (#41239729)
We could probably terraform Mars if we crashed Europa into Mars.
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by ianburrell on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @05:42PM (#41240158)
It would make Mars warmer. It would melt all the ice and CO2. It would give Mars an ocean. Of liquid rock. This is assuming that it doesn't destroy Mars completely. There might be enough fragments to make Solar System dangerous place and destroy life on Earth.

Europa is the size of our Moon. Colliding it with Mars would be similar to the collision that formed our Moon.

Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by Mistletoe on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @05:57PM (#41240279)
But would it stay on Mars? I thought the issue was there was no dynamo in the core, which lets solar winds strip it away. How long would it stay?
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by ianburrell on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @06:10PM (#41240359)
It would stay molten for millions of years.

Not sure if Europa's water would be flung into space, make atmosphere, or make a boiling ocean.

Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by yobbo on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:39AM (#41243976)
There's probably a way to engineer it such that the spin of the planet is 24h, the core is spun up. We'd also like ~365 day years.
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by px43 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:49AM (#41245473)
At some point I saw a design for a machine you could park at the Lagrange point between Mars and the Sun that would collect solar power and spit out a magnetic field strong enough to deflect enough of the solar winds that we wouldn't need to worry about that.
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by yobbo on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:36AM (#41243939)
Let's do it. No one remembers a coward.
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by jajko on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @11:23AM (#41247155)
Also nobody remembers when there is nobody alive
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by wildzzz on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @05:16PM (#41239946)
And then we completely skew Mars's orbit until it crashes into the sun or is flung out of the solar system.
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by littlestymaar on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @05:22PM (#41239998)
If we had the technology allowing us to move a full satellite through the solar system, we could probably do it in a way that would just make Mars a bit closer to the sun so that the weather gets nicer (sure, if it gets too close to earth it's going to mess up with both orbits, but we can as well correct it when it happens, right?)
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by Sparkyte on Friday August 16, 2024 @12:29PM (#41267852)
It doesn't have to be near the sun to have heat or be warmed by the Sun. It is still currently in the goldilocks zone, same with Venus. The difference is how well each planet traps heat. No atmosphere no heat for mars, highest peak surface temperature is 70 fehrenheit or 20 celsius. Not much but enough green house gas and you could raise it by 20 degrees or more. Other thing to consider is that you don't need to move Mars, you could create artificial magnetospheres.
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by staplers on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @05:16PM (#41239937)
Might have some "slight" orbital and shrapnel repercussions..
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by hoseja on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @03:45AM (#41243608)
If we could crash Europa into Mars we'd have capability to terraform Mars in a more reasonable manner.
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere by keepamovin on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @06:54AM (#41244670)
And then wait 160 million years for the planet to settle. I like your long term thinking.