Conspiracy Discussion
#41
Posted 28 January 2006 - 10:35 AM
I don't think humanity will cease to exist because of a Meteor. A Meteor will strike a part of the Earth, not the Earth in whole, unless it's very big and has a large velocity. Chances are higher we'll have ourselves blown up by some kind of war.
#42
Posted 28 January 2006 - 10:47 AM
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#43
Posted 28 January 2006 - 02:39 PM
Edited by MSpencer, 28 January 2006 - 02:39 PM.
#44
Posted 28 January 2006 - 04:10 PM
One way to do this was explained on Total Recall: Melt the polar ice caps and either release dissolved oxygen into the atmosphere or split the hydrogen and oxygen in each molecule, which can be done with a simple electric current. May have to keep some heaters under the ice caps to keep them from sucking the water back up, but it could work.
Or just have everyone live in big domes.
Edited by link.the.first, 28 January 2006 - 04:10 PM.
#45
Posted 28 January 2006 - 04:12 PM
Melting the polar ice caps would just release more CO2 into the atmosphere, since it's dry ice.
#46
Posted 28 January 2006 - 04:16 PM
Also, splitting the hydrogens from the single oxygen would cost a lot in energy, and it would produce an ungodly amount of hydrogen gas and not enough oxygen to support life. Don't trust an Arnold movie for being scientifically accurate.
#47
Posted 28 January 2006 - 04:54 PM
One way to do this was explained on Total Recall: Melt the polar ice caps and either release dissolved oxygen into the atmosphere
That's what the burning of Phobos was about, it would produce a lot of heat, melting the polar ice caps. It would be like a sun and a half to anything on mars. Phobos has no atmosphere, so the heat wouldn't be contained.
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#51
Posted 29 January 2006 - 01:35 PM
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#52
Posted 29 January 2006 - 01:56 PM
So, a: how the **** does one ignite a moon? (You'd need one hell of a zippo.)
And b: where does the oxygen come from?
And c: anyone heard of the port arthur masacre? (it was Australia day on the 26th, and its taken me until not to think of an Australian conspiracy theory)
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#53
Posted 29 January 2006 - 02:15 PM
Also, if you were to burn all the carbon you'd only create CO2 and consume all the oxygen you dumped. Also, you'd have to carry oxygen as a liquid or solid which takes up tons of energy if you were to enact your plan, and either way, it would take tons of it, or a lot of it would completely miss the moon or radiate out into space.
#54
Posted 29 January 2006 - 03:09 PM
Edited by Nighthawk200, 29 January 2006 - 03:10 PM.
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#55
Posted 30 January 2006 - 11:26 PM
#56
Posted 31 January 2006 - 12:44 AM
It was probably some sort of prototype aircraft the Air Force was testing. Also, all technology today was invented locally; you can officially account for that by looking up the inventors.
#57
Posted 31 January 2006 - 12:50 AM
Plus, what about that Soviet Missile incident when it just started counting down and then stopped without anybody telling it to do any of those things??
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Posted 31 January 2006 - 05:00 PM
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#59
Posted 31 January 2006 - 05:08 PM
But the whole point is to provide heat, which will melt the polar ice caps on Mars, as I said earlier, it would be like a much smaller sun
Which will burn out very quickly, assuming we can even get the fire going.
Our best bet is to genetically engineer phytoplankton to be resistant to the extreme cold of Mars and let THEM do the terraforming.
Which is about as plausible as burning Phobos.
#60
Posted 31 January 2006 - 08:36 PM
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