Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions
by jojobas on Thursday October 23, 2025 @02:48AM
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Mars is super short of hydrogen (and lacks the magnetic field to guard it). We'd need to crash a bunch of ice asteroids into it to get in the water and heat it up, then there could be a stab at terraforming it. So far we seem to be more likely to marsaform Earth.
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Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions
by lavelganzu on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:33PM
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Another option is to fake a planetary magnetic field by placing a large electromagnetic satellite in mars-stationary orbit. Merely reducing the effect of the solar wind stripping away the atmosphere could lead gradually to a much thicker atmosphere, and even surface liquid.