Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan […]

By Albert Burneko

9:00 AM EDT on September 11, 2024

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let’s discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      but Mars L1 Lagrange point is only 2.2million km [from the sun]

      I… don’t think that’s true? The L1 point is fairly close (in solar system scale) to the planet.

        • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
          4·
          6 days ago

          I’m not hating on km… I’m hating on listing one distance in miles then the next one in km. I don’t care which system they used, I care that the two numbers we are supposed to compare are in different units. :(

          • 50MYT
            2·
            6 days ago

            Ahhhhh.

            Yes I see. That does make sense.