Would Elon Musk’s plan to nuke Mars actually work? (CEO, robot)

[Woof]

09/10/15 07:11 PM—UPDATED 09/10/15 07:43 PM

By Keith Wagstaff

"It’s not often you hear a prominent CEO talk about nuking Mars, so when SpaceX founder Elon Musk broached the idea on the “Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Wednesday night, people took notice ....... Would Elon Musk's plan to nuke Mars actually work? | MSNBC "

[Josseppie]

Let's nuke the planet then!

[harry chickpea]

The quantity of pole ice on Mars in miniscule compared to the job needed to be done. Nuking would be idiotic. However...
Re-aiming every comet to impact the planet might give it a start. Problem is - not enough comets unless you start pushing stuff around and playing pool in the Kuiper belt. Actually, that would be the start of a good sci-fi story. Hmmm.

Short term, the better idea would be using underground H bombs to create massive living spaces. With clean bombs, robotics, and the time needed between initial construction and habitation, it could work fairly well.

[DPolo]

I love to be inspired by technology.

Vaporizing polar caps would heat up the temperature enough to unfreeze all water on mars.

I don't think we should spend more then 50 billion of tax payer money pier year to terraform mars, we will need a couple of mars orbiters and a couple of robotic weather testing stations on the surface.

Nukes leave radiation, so we need to consider the best explosives.