Can We Really Terraform Mars, Venus, And The Moon With Today's Technology?

Can We Terraform Mars?
Mars has been a spot of attraction for everyone on Earth recently. You might have heard of organisations planning to go on mars. But for just a normal person, what will that realistically look like?
A lot of organisations have sent their probes on mars and many more are planning. It has also been a favourite theme in movies, with martians coming to our planet. But the reality is a bit different. Humans are the ones going to mars and even capture it. The main question today is, How? And once we get there, how are we going to survive Long-term? The red planet’s atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide. The surface is very cold and the gravity is only about 38% that of earth. All conditions not favourable for human life. But they can be changed. NASA has already announced its plan to send humans to mars by 2030, and SpaceX plans to do so by 2024 only.

Terraforming Venus quickly? Fascinating, but..
Why do we spend so much time looking for life on Mars when the red planet has had liquid water for only 400 million years... while here "two steps" there is Venus that has hosted oceans for three billion years and no one considers her?
Isn’t it that we overlooked it a little too much the planet that before the space age was still considered fit for life and perhaps covered by oceans?
. Since the mid-1990s, US scientists alone have submitted nearly 30 Venus proposals to NASA. None has been approved.
It was during the space race that scientists discovered on Venus a torrid and toxic world. That could explain why interest in Venus dwindled. Scientists quickly realized that this planet would not be a home for future human exploration, nor an outlet on which to search for life. It would be downright difficult to study at all, even for short amounts of time.

Can we terraform the Moon?
Indeed, you've heard a lot about terraforming Mars but little about the Moon, and it's normal to hear about bombarding it with water-filled meteors like it was an easy task, looking to turn it blue and then green, but how true is this? What can we do to terraform the Moon? Is it viable?
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DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA

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00:00 Intro
00:02 The Reality Of Terraforming Mars
10:42 Terraforming Venus quickly? Fascinating, but...
25:02 Can We Terraform The Moon?
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[ricklayeux]

Why not start terraforming the world's deserts first, see how that goes.

[GadreelAdvocat]

Mass drivers on the poles of the moon could send lots of supplies to Mars on a regular basis. Yet, such infrastructure would need to be built on the moon.

[royalscot]

If we can't fix our own planet, how can we fix any other?

[barracuda]

Will they eventually bring animals like cow or chickens. Their manure could enhance the Martian soil. They can bring them as eggs or embryos and start them on Mars.Also what about things like earthworms or other beneficial ground bugs.

[richard--s]

We have not yet made a greenhouse full of plants to support some people with air and food - and you can keep the doors and windows shut tight.

It still does not work. We still need to bring in fresh air and food from the outside.

Good luck with opening windows for getting fresh air and calling your food store to deliver food to you ;-)

It is still possible, but it needs so much cargo from Earth...

And you only can travel from Earth to Mars or back every two years - every 26 months. Because in the meantime, Mars is on the other side of the sun. It's way too far away between every 26 months...

This makes it way more complicated than living on the ISS. Yes, it's possible, but it requires lots of cargo...

[davidjiannotti]

Drag one of Jupiter's moons into mars orbit and job will be done.

[kennyj]

The tech is evolving all the time, and things we once thought were impossible are gradually becoming more and more possible. Remember, there was a time when the thought of going to the moon, or creating space stations was the province of SF writers only. Settling Mars is a question of 'when' not 'if'. Sooner or later, it will happen. I'd love to see the start of it happening in my lifetime.

[DJ-tttq]

No chance today, possibly in the distant future, but the Earth is our home.

[NeetchianQueen]

Restoring our Own earth and cleaning it up with the most effective tech and old fashioned ingenuity first, also How can Mars magnitosphere be restored? and How long? regenerating land is not that hard. Farmers and preppers know the positive growing practices. Composting would b key to restabilizing the soil and plants use CO2. This could help with protected environment to later be expanded into the real environment once again.

[kayakMike]

Why would we throw all those resources down a gravity well? There will be far more people on stations, its just not economically reasonable to dump valuable things in an impoverished market.

[mikeofalltrades]

Short answer, No! not with current tech

[raydawson]

It depends on wether these planets have a magnetic field and an atmosphere to keep in the gases to then allow the growth of trees and greenery to produce oxygen

[SoapinTrucker]

Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson says, if we can terraform another planet, then we can terraform Earth back to normal, so let's do that! 👍

[PaulClipMaster]

By 2024 and 2030? Cutting it kind of close right now.

[rickmarkgraf]

Terra forming Venus requires new tech with complimentary results, such as multiple rocket engines based on acid phase reactions that can independently land and anchor, with a large cargo of alkaline salts that react with the acid atmosphere. These engines would not only neutralize the atmosphere, but gradually affect the planets rotation toward an ideal.
By the time the atmosphere is neutralized, the reaction would reduce and the salts would become neutral, but the rotation will have changed.
Massive scale, but anything would be. At least half the fuel is already there and impact would be compounded.

[kentbarker]

God, is everybody crazy?! we'll all be dead long before that happens. we ARE'NT going anywhere

[lknanml]

No.... Mars can't support an Earth like atmosphere unless we develop a way to strengthen its electromagnetic field. That level of tech will take us 1000+ years to develop if ever...

[robinwolstenholme]

so if we make the planet spin faster we solve globle warming It would affect temperature patterns and atmospheric circulation systems. With shorter days, the land surface would cool faster at night, while warming periods would be shorter. This could alter wind patterns, cloud formation, and precipitation distribution in different regions of the world.

[pi.actual]

I can envision it now. Finally the long process of terraforming Mars is complete however the humans who started it have not been seen for the past 250 million years.

[unknownplayer]

All the people in the comments are very negativ. We as a species have already evolved very far, further then any know species (intelligently that is).
In the last 100 years we had more technical innovation then in the last 1000 years together.
We already have multiple robots on Mars and have been on the moon DECADES ago with old and relatively simple technology. Just thinking of the development in the next twenty years is making me excited. If there is a will there is a way.
I have no doubt that we will have started terraforming the moon in the next fifteen to twenty years.
Can't wait to see how far humanity will come in my lifetime.