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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a MARS ROVER. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | {{w|Terraforming}} is the (so far only suggested) process of changing a planet, usually to make it more habitable for humans | + | {{w|Terraforming}} is the (so far only suggested) process of changing a planet, usually to make it more habitable (for humans). A very common example is {{w|Mars}}, which is known to harbour water ice and believed to have previously been warm enough to have liquid water. Normally, plans for terraforming try to adjust temperatures to be compatible with liquid water, and an atmosphere containing significant amounts of oxygen but little carbon dioxide. In this comic [[Cueball]] is suggesting doing the opposite, and terraform {{w|Earth}} to be more like Mars, i.e. extremely dry, cold and with a very thin atmosphere. The word {{w|Terra}} is the latin name for Earth, so Terraforming would be "Earth Forming". The comic title combines Mars with Forming (with a linking "i") to create the new word Marsiforming. |
− | + | The title text provides examples of how this could improve things: Preserving martian life (a proposed reason to terraform Mars would be to provide a second planet to preserve Earth life at the cost of destroying any Martian organisms, so by marsiforming Earth, we would provide a second planet to preserve hypothetical Martian life, albeit at the cost of destroying any Earth life), fewer interplanetary launches (no need to leave this planet's atmosphere in order to visit itself, and Martians who might otherwise need to return to their home planet could instead settle on Earth), easier to field-test Mars rovers (field-test means to test in the environment of actual use, which is now readily available on Earth). | |
− | + | There are known extremophile species that would survive underground on Mars. If similar life is hiding on Mars, marsiforming the Earth would benefit their possible eventual interstellar efforts. There is an existing project to begin experimental terraforming on Mars by nurturing some of our extremophile species on it.{{w|Terraforming_of_Mars#Funded_research:_ecopoiesis}} | |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | [Cueball is on a stage giving a presentation, with a diagram behind him. The diagram shows Earth and Mars side-by-side.] | |
− | + | Cueball: Earth and Mars may look different now, but with some orbiting mirrors and atmospheric adjustments, we could change that. | |
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− | + | [Caption below the panel:] | |
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+ | I'm having trouble selling people on my proposal to terraform Earth to resemble Mars. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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