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I can easily see that you are against desatroying a primitive species on another planet. Why? I just don't why that life would mean so much to you.

Would it be good to build a colony at the bottom of Valles Marineris?

I don't see how air could leak out of a solid rock cliff. Would this happen though?

Just because it was built to withstand that doesn't mean that it could. Cracks were being found in the early stages of development and after they were repaired they reapeared larger. Also the dam is built directly under an active fault line.

Has anyone considered a union with china and other space agencies?

I would think that china may destroy itself in one way or another. The three gorges dam on the yangtze river will soon become a stangnant pond after its completion. Most of the nearby cities dump all of their waste in the river. Once there is a large enough buildup a terrorist attack would easily be able to destroy the dam killing millions with flooding and the millions more with the epedemic the waste water could cause.

Besides taking china out has anyone thought of merely joining with them. I realize that a competion could spur a quick development of many new technologies but it is also true that two heads are better than one. The world is against each other in many different ways. including politics, economics, and even terrorism. Why should we be against eachother on space. I personally think that the worlds space organizations working together toward a common goal would be much better than it is now.

About withstanding the ride-They could be eggs and sperm

Feed-If Mars is terraformed enough for animals then there should be plants

Waste-Fertilizer

Even if there aren't vast amounts of water on Mars i shouldn't slow terraforming down too much. We would probably have to pump some of the underground resevoirs to the surface but if there aren't any to pump then you can use that time and money to get astroids. Besides areobraking ice astroids into the atmosphere with add more water vapor to the air than pumping liquid water to the surface would. This water vapor would increase the temp more and release more water from the poles.

Don't the poles go underground also? Like an iceberg where you can only see a small percentage of it. This is what I heard somewhere, don't know if it is true.

Before colonization of Mars we could crash Mercury into it and add a little mass and then use the ejecta to for a moon in proportion to Mars as luna is to terra. It could happen couldn't it?

Is it possible to bomb some of the atmosphere off? Like dropping large boms into the upper atmosphere where they would explode and expel clouds and gases into space. Could this work?

Thanks kippy. Your link was much better. Maybe I should try that one on different sites.

My science teacher once told us that 85% of Earth's oxygen comes from phytoplankton. I'm not sure if this is ture but if it is then wouldn't it be fairly easy to scrub CO2 from the Martian air once the planets is warmed up? I mean you rais ethe temps with greenhouse gases in order to get oceans. Then fill the oceans with algae and plankton. A whole lot of them. Then when there is enogh oxygen add some whales to take care of the plankton and start the ocean biosphere.

Could this idea work?