Some people suggested nuking the poles to release the water ice into vapor or have machines scour the landscape and heat up the soil to emit CO2 to initiate a greenhouse effect similar to what we are doing to Earth. It still would take centuries and we don’t know if there are unintended consequences.
Yes and no. Doing it Total Recall style by melting the poles and increasing greenhouse gases is within our current technology to do so.
Did the calcs and no.
The issue with terraforming Mars to have a breathable atmosphere, even assuming you had terraforming tools, is Mars’s mass and utter lack of magnetic field. The Sun is going to strip away any real atmosphere we make, and the radiation won’t be friendly to anyone trying to live there. Earth’s magnetosphere is what…
Modern scientific practice is naturally conservative and positivistic. Which means that by the time the scientists are confident in their position, at some level of stastistical and/or evidentiary confidence, the answer is all but obvious.
Only if you are assuming that it would be a sequel.
In what serves as a very sad commentary on the current state of geopolitical affairs, the US Centers for Disease…
Agreed. It’s one thing to make a movie with endearing characters based on initial dialogue and relying on familiar and well-liked celebrity voices, but to make a movie with an entirely compelling, sympathetic, and charming protagonist with no lines for the first part of the movie and only two to three word lines…
It really was a perfect answer. I don’t care or have an opinion either way (although there is a great theory out there that if he is a Replicant, he has Gaff’s memories implanted in him), so I like that they kind of addressed it and still gave us something satisfying. As K, Roy, etc. showed, it doesn’t matter if…
Just needed a little tweaking, there.
Counterpoint:
Counterpoint:
Came here to nominate this. Arguably the best band ever assembled, in terms of sheer musical talent up and down the lineup. Nothing else sounds like it.
Came here to nominate this. Arguably the best band ever assembled, in terms of sheer musical talent up and down the…
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue.
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue.
Probably sergeant pepper i’ve got my fathers original print of the album he got the day it came out and it still sounds great.
Probably sergeant pepper i’ve got my fathers original print of the album he got the day it came out and it still…
So you are saying George RR Martin needs to be hit by a car a little bit?
