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Offline Nuke

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
Actually, most of the atmospheric loss on Mars is due to thermal escape (low gravity), rather than erosion via solar wind.  It's not that big of a deal on time scales worth worrying about.

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Since the Asteroid belt IS technically an incomplete planet... why not pick the left over sol formation trash and recycle it? Nuke has a point.

The total mass of the asteroid belt is not very significant -- less than 5% the mass of the moon.  Nowhere near enough to melt Mars if using feasible collision speeds.

And yeah, as Kara said you'd be waiting millions of years for the planet to cool down again, so that's a pretty long term investment.  Lol.

should point out that was a very sleep deprived suggestion. you would probibly be better off dropping the moons (they are spiraling down anyway), and save the asteroids for ceres. this will give us a place to planet hop to when the sun expands. we just have to time it just right so that the planet (if you throw all the asteroids at it its technically a planet) is habitable when we need to abandon mars because its too hot.
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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
Actually, most of the atmospheric loss on Mars is due to thermal escape (low gravity), rather than erosion via solar wind.  It's not that big of a deal on time scales worth worrying about.

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Since the Asteroid belt IS technically an incomplete planet... why not pick the left over sol formation trash and recycle it? Nuke has a point.

The total mass of the asteroid belt is not very significant -- less than 5% the mass of the moon.  Nowhere near enough to melt Mars if using feasible collision speeds.

And yeah, as Kara said you'd be waiting millions of years for the planet to cool down again, so that's a pretty long term investment.  Lol.

should point out that was a very sleep deprived suggestion. you would probibly be better off dropping the moons (they are spiraling down anyway), and save the asteroids for ceres. this will give us a place to planet hop to when the sun expands. we just have to time it just right so that the planet (if you throw all the asteroids at it its technically a planet) is habitable when we need to abandon mars because its too hot.

I don't think we'll be able to wait until then, we'll have to migrate to a new solar system and a new planet. Perhaps mankind will have spread across the stars by then. Or have wiped ourselves out. Or been wiped out by the Yellowstone volcano. Or been wiped out by aliens. Or been wiped out by an asteroid. Or been wiped out by global warming. Or wiped out by a new supervirus. Or been sent back to the stone age by a solar flare wiping out all technology, or maybe just wiped off the Earth by a solar flare...

Just thought I'd brighten your day  :lol:

 

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
The asteroid belt and Mars generally do seem to have a large fraction of the solar system's iron, though. Pity that they don't likely have many conductive or superconductive materials. From my own observations, it looks like Earth and the Moon are our only (plentiful) accessible source of heavier metals, radioactives and cool stuff at present.

It's pretty cool though - if we can get rid of the crazy greenies, and the silly people who think nuclear POWAH is EVIL because it makes your dick tiny or some nonsense like that, we actually probably won't really need to worry about our plutonium/any thing we can use for nuclear-related purposes for thousands of years, at the very least. It's just developing the task of developing the infrastructure. And training.
We've also yet to fully harness the power of nuclear fission. Nuclear power plants aren't the easiest things to build and maintain either, but I guess that's where you're going with the bit about development and training. Generally I agree... it's not like we have many other types of resources to use for power.

 

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
Actually, most of the atmospheric loss on Mars is due to thermal escape (low gravity), rather than erosion via solar wind.  It's not that big of a deal on time scales worth worrying about.

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Since the Asteroid belt IS technically an incomplete planet... why not pick the left over sol formation trash and recycle it? Nuke has a point.

The total mass of the asteroid belt is not very significant -- less than 5% the mass of the moon.  Nowhere near enough to melt Mars if using feasible collision speeds.

And yeah, as Kara said you'd be waiting millions of years for the planet to cool down again, so that's a pretty long term investment.  Lol.

should point out that was a very sleep deprived suggestion. you would probibly be better off dropping the moons (they are spiraling down anyway), and save the asteroids for ceres. this will give us a place to planet hop to when the sun expands. we just have to time it just right so that the planet (if you throw all the asteroids at it its technically a planet) is habitable when we need to abandon mars because its too hot.

I don't think we'll be able to wait until then, we'll have to migrate to a new solar system and a new planet. Perhaps mankind will have spread across the stars by then. Or have wiped ourselves out. Or been wiped out by the Yellowstone volcano. Or been wiped out by aliens. Or been wiped out by an asteroid. Or been wiped out by global warming. Or wiped out by a new supervirus. Or been sent back to the stone age by a solar flare wiping out all technology, or maybe just wiped off the Earth by a solar flare...

Just thought I'd brighten your day  :lol:

the only thing that can brighten my day would be a 100 megaton tsar bomba (the original, not the one where the physicist freaked out and halved the yield). yep, that would be awesome and would really make my day.
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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars

the only thing that can brighten my day would be a 100 megaton tsar bomba (the original, not the one where the physicist freaked out and halved the yield). yep, that would be awesome and would really make my day.

I do hope you're just another persona person like Legate Damar or me in my "fued" with Yaiceca.

 

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
Clearly you don't know Nuke very well yet. :D

 

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
He is a man of simple but lofty ambitions.
"Think about nice things not unhappy things.
The future makes happy, if you make it yourself.
No war; think about happy things."   -WouterSmitssm

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
Clearly you don't know Nuke very well yet. :D

I know he likes to talk about explosions a lot, particularly the nuclear variety.

If he is dead serious though, I'll just be thankful that it's unlikely he'll ever find himself with his finger hovering over any big red buttons.

 
Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
He's a psychopathic Alaskan redneck (at least one of those is probably redundant) so we're all glad he'll never have his fingers near the button.
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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
I always figured his nuclear detonation buttons would be yellow smiley faces. :)
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I'll be your religion, your only endless ideal.
Slowly we crawl in the dark.
Swallowed by the seductive night.

 

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
I always figured his nuclear detonation buttons would be yellow smiley faces. :)

Hmmm... Something like this maybe?

http://dc118.4shared.com/img/eIpM--PU/s7/Mick_Foley_-_Have_a_nice_day.jpg

 

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
He's a psychopathic Alaskan redneck
And that's why we love him!

 

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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
i dont think id favor red buttons in my firing controls. instead i prefer to have a frayed wire and a metal plate, to fire the nukes, touch wire to plate. it seemed like a good idea at the time, but the cats have started sleeping on the console. a lucky thwack with the tail and the earth is a cinder. though i could just as easily spill my beer/deer blood on it. yay!
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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
Am I the only one who figured Nuke is currently on the dark six months of the north and his brightening of his day was a pun which the nuclear explosion would seem like a second sun?
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Re: $500,000 and you can have a 1 way ticket to Mars
im not that far north. alaska is a big state you know, its bigger than most of europe. you have to live in anchorage or further north before you stop seeing sun. i mean we get at least 6 hours of daylight here in winter.
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