Monday, December 05, 2022

 Considerations About How Improved Habitability of Mars Might be Achieved

Here I wanted to say some more than my video and elaborate a bit more about my idea of hopefully colonizing and terraforming Mars in just years instead of centuries by spearing or putting a magnetic bubble around the side of Callisto, one of the large satellites of Jupiter. The magnetic bubble  would then react with Jupiter's strong field with a force outward and then on in a more linear future path to Mars at minimal cost for using this for the advantage of mankind. This would double the land area that we can live on in just a few years, not centuries.

 Here we would crash Callisto into Mars rapidly giving Mars a more breathable atmosphere,
pressure by this atmosphere, warmth and heat by the pressure, and also by crashing other asteroids into Mars with the right profile we might get more ideal minerals and materials for the soil that we would add on Mars by this method. In addition this would  have the advantage of a denser atmosphere which would help shield the future dwellers of Mars from harmful cosmic rays and radiation from the sun.

Elon Musk has believed that we would simply crash near Earth asteroids into the pole of Mars melting the ice and giving oxygen and water to Mars and perhaps heat.

 I had read and been taught this won't work because it will take 10 million comets and comments on Reddit! to change much.

 Lots of comets or asteroids would need many machines and be  more complex also and leave us with lots of poison and radioactive soil and Co2 and it would still be cold. (This is the reason I think we see craters in the images by the ancient flowing channels because the water stayed liquid under the pressure only for a brief time in the history of Mars and this is also why we don't find evidence of life on Mars.  Carl Sagan holds that the water probably isn't gone and is instead sealed in the ice caps, even so I think it's possible pressure not heat is why there was liquid water on Mars and this is why it was for such a brief time. Mars isn't able to sustain life because of the low gravity which doesn't have enough pressure to hold liquid water. Even so due to the low gravity I believe that there may be a large area where liquid water can exist inside Mars like in subterranean channels that might actually have life or have had it. When you go down a hundred feet inside the crust of the Earth the temperature goes up one degree, so it rapidly gets hot but with lower gravity inside of Mars there may be a much larger area where liquid water  exists in flowing channels. If as in the history of Mars there's not enough gravity for liquid water on the surface to exist for long, I think it's possible we might be able to dig large radial tunnels down to the center of Mars and increase the gravity by taking the metals from these tunnels and compressing them with fusion machines which are now almost viable. This would make them so dense  the gravity of Mars would be increased enough to hold liquid water and an atmosphere. In addition these tunnels would give us additional room to live inside of Mars. To dig them might be a lot easier than it might seem because if we had fusion power machines and the low gravity inside of Mars to start with it will be much easier to dig tunnels to the center of Mars for this purpose. Another good use of fusion might be to add on a synthetic form of soil so that we're not just living on a surface of metal or other soil that wouldn't be as healthy. This might be in our reach as well as the machines to both synthesize and disperse the soil by the new improvements about fusion power.) Blasting Mars with a larger impactor would give more heat and cleanse away more of the crust which is actually radioactive several feet down. Unlike using lots of comets my plan would change Mars to our advantage fast in a simple way.

Engineering an impactor might even help us better simulate how the protomoon hit the Earth, and improve our ideas about the formation and evolution of other solar systems.

 Originally I thought of this about using a satellite of Jupiter to improve our ability to colonize Mars as a good idea. However by more research I realized there were two other problems. One is about the radioactivity (because of Jupiter) of the water of some of the moons of Jupiter,  and the other problem as I will discuss and also for reasons I will  discount below, is  about the possibility of bad actors using this method to use an impactor to cause us harm..(this would not be a problem because it would take far too long for them to do so because the huge distance a presumed impactor or would have to travel to reach us and we would have advanced warning and be able to take action, by future methods like the DART asteroid deflector mission or many other methods to move asteroids that are being considered.)

 The four main satellites of Jupiter are  Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The first three Io, Europa, and Ganymede unlike Callisto, are under the influence of Jupiter's high energy radiation belt with radioactivity around it.

 Originally I thought we might have used a large satellite like Ganymede, or perhaps  Europa to crash into Mars and give us a new world to live in.

 First of all I ruled out using Io, the innermost large satellite of Jupiter for this plan because Io has a lot of sulfur volcanoes, and it's believed to have a vast ocean of molten sulfur inside which we wouldn't get much use of if we crash it into Mars since it would radiate out into an atmosphere. In addition, I think Io the first satellite of Jupiter also may be directly involved with solar storms because there's a large amount of sulfur in a torus around Jupiter in Io's orbit.

 I believe this may have major influence on solar weather and our risk of being hit by plasmas from the sun because the sun spots actually go in 22 years cycles and Jupiter's orbit is 11 years in period and so I think it's a resonance of Io's procession around Jupiter that changes the angle from the North magnetic pole of the Torus to the South Pole and reverses the polarity of the sun spots, also explaining why the sun gets hotter on the outside than inside. By this, Jupiter would be drawing off the plasma from the Sun by its stronger magnetic field from the side. Jupiter has a magnetic field of about 100 Gauss while the Sun has only about half a Gauss.

 The 22 year resonance of the Sunspot cycle by complete reversal from pole to pole might help us predict when the solar plasmas were headed to us.

 The sun spots also may have influence on biology because e.g. the tree rings by the evidence of dendrochronology also resonate in the 11-year cycle.

 This is one of the theories of the stock markets that it has 11 year oscillations and there is some evidence for this. If so the solar influence of the precession of Io may influence our behavior in a general way. After all the brain is based on electrical signals and how those signals change by way of a change in the components of the radiation from the sun, may be a good reason not to change Io.

 Thus we might consider some of the other Galilean satellites of Jupiter, for example Ganymede which has a relatively smooth surface.

 One question I asked is about the probability of life inside of Europe which many believe is possible because there's a large ocean inside of it (known from general density by gravity), and presumably geothermal heating by the sloshing of the tides to power the life.

 It's believed that the fault lines on Europa are based on a sort of tectonic circulation of the ice continually flowing up to the surface and circulating back down by way of the flow. So here I asked the question... if there's a lot of radioactivity of Jupiter because Ganymede and Europa are both inside the radioactive belt of Jupiter, it seemed possible that the circulation of the ice and water down into the ocean of these planets would make the waters of the oceans radioactive so much that they'll be sterile.

 I also thought this will be a problem for crashing one of these moons into Mars because if it has radioactive water it's not worth using for terraforming Mars.

 More recently as I looked at the pictures of Callisto, I realized it being outside the radiation belt more might not have the problem of its ocean being made of radioactive water. This is both because it's more outside the radiation belt of Jupiter, but also because unlike the other large moons we see Callisto has a large amount of cratering of the ice. This is to the point where some have described Callisto as a giant shattered crystal ball. It's believed that because the craters are remaining and the surface of the other moons are smoothed over perhaps by the heating of the radiation from Jupiter, Callisto's surface must perhaps be really old or older at any rate. So if the craters haven't been smoothed over this might bode well for this plan of using a magnetic bubble to move Callisto to Mars because it means there's not a lot of radioactivity from Jupiter melting them and so the ocean beneath might be more pure not a hazard to changing Mars more rapidly, but an advantage.

Here I also want to talk about the objection that might be raised that this method of rapidly changing Mars might be used by bad actors to try to crash an asteroid into the Earth like for a ransom.
 
 This however would take years even though it will be hugely faster than colonizing Mars with this method compared to the plan some have of boosting giant rocket boosters to Mars with supplies and materials.

 While much faster and cheaper than 10,000 years to colonize Mars, it would still take years, and be so slow that we'd have so much extra warning if an asteroid was being sent to the earth that we would need no more than a good enough sensor array and a simple deflection system which they've already tried out, so the danger of this might be actually much less than the value of colonizing Mars so rapidly and cheaply at least it certainly seems more of worth compared to other plans I'd heard of.

Goddard and Tsilokovsky were considered to be the originators of the idea of the elevator to orbit and while the elevator might be valuable, simply sending a magnetic bubble to near Jupiter might not just give us space to move around in with hardly any expense of shielding or heating and so on and ongoing constant risk of collapse or explosion for the space stations, but rather double our area of land to live on which maybe highly highly valuable. This idea which I am the father of would be much cheaper and yet higher value than the elevator. If anyone considers the elevator  this might even be worth more for our future.

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 One possible use about this idea of cleansing Mars completely, could be that we could start completely anew with respect to chemical pollution. Like Alaska, the only state that's being planned before it's developed, we might learn to limit chemical pollution on Mars.

 This is because it's becoming apparent that chemicals like PFAs which are forever chemicals are in the ecosystem. This is the time of great disease after the time of great health before like in the 1950s. A lot of people would attribute this to pollution, and we may be looking forward to a world where fewer and fewer can have children and those children can have grandchildren, so that perhaps only 5% will be healthy and with the rise of so many diseases, that 5% will not be able to support the other 95% that are ill. One other good method of defending ourselves against the coming sea of poisonous chemicals that we're already living in, may be just the Earth because  medicinal cleansing clay can absorb out a large number (200 or more) toxins that are in our bodies!