ok then, lets figure out what we need for terraformation!
several home bases should be built on mars to monitor the progress and act as a center of operations
as well as a spaceport and huge parking lot for any vehicles
we should figure out whether it is more economical to move the dry ice from the poles or to just directly melt it!
if moving, then we will need to build massive space trucks!
if we melt, maybe an orbital laser or we could cause an asteroid to strike it, instantly vaporizing the whole thing!
also, trillions of carbon sequestration units will be built on earth and thousands of tons of dry ice must be sent up to mars daily by a huge "cargocraft"
If this turns out to be not enough, we will take it from venus, and in the process maybe even terraform it
There must be bases on venus to freeze the carbon dioxide into dry ice efficiently! and orbital storages that lay in the shadow of venus (cooler there)
An orbital spaceport will tranport the dry ice to earth where it then goes to mars
Also, we shall siphon many cubic kilometers of nitrogen gas from jupiter to create a thick enough atmosphere, an orbital platform will brave the supersonic winds and send back transport drones with many tons of solid nitrogen.
We will pump a relatively small amount of artificially created ozone into the atmosphere to protect us from the suns harmfl rays also
For the water, we shall ship billions of tons solid oxygen and solid hydrogen
because the infrastructure is already in place, this will be made considerably easier
the problem is that the oxygen and hydrogen must come from somewhere (and not earth!)
another (more feasible) option is to fly out probes and scouts to find suitable comets that we will then direct
with ion engines (or maybe fusion/antimatter if a more direct course is needed) into mars to release massive amounts of water. This way will almost certainly quicker and cheaper.
If we use the first method, much of the oxygen will be used to add at least 20% of it into the atmosphere
the second method will require electrosis of water which will give up oxygen and hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel source!
up to 30 orbital stations around mars will now drop plants, trees and flowers alike, each in a fireproof shell. Apon impact the shell will open and the seed will be buried under an inch of provided soil and enough water to last several weeks in the form of solid oxygen and hydrogen.
Genetically modified plants must be developed to be able to survive on mars and trillions of tons of fertilizers will be dumped in artificial jungles and forests.
When the atmosphere is breathable, humans will then proceed to build mass bases on mars. Quickly erectable bases that can be built in the thousands. A new ship will have to be contructed to transport humans there quickly and effecieently.
An infrastructure for a city will be built and the first colony should have up to 5000 settelers, mostly scientists.
Huge agricultural farms will be built, covering up to 5% of the planet. Most of this will go into large silo's, saved for future settlers.
once this is completed, huge electromagnets, tens of meters across will be used as localized solar partical deflection sheilds. Even, orbital platforms will require them incase of a flare.
By this stage, at least 2 centuries into the project, human technology will have advanced far enough to modify animals
i don't know exactly what the conditions will be like on this terraformed mars, but it'll probably be sub-par to earth.
The first genetically modified herbivores will have a hard time surviving on this semi-barren planet, the trees still occupy a measly 40% of the surface and the water can only be found near the single, large ocean created out of comet impacts.
Omnivores and carnivores would be gradually brought in slowly and near water/food sources. They must! be very carefully selected to hopefully avoid any diseases on mars.
A permenent spaceport will be set up on both mars and earth, travel will be common although expensive, and technology and wifi/ other modern things will be brought in.
wifi will be hard to implement with current technology, where there would be a 15 minute delay
however, in the future, a tachyon particle, which travels faster than the speed of light, will be able to access web pages in a blink through ftl communications
humans will now expand their settlement to a population of 100,000, and several more smaller ones will have probably started up. A rudimentary government will have started up, and within decades, they declare independence.
now someone do the calculations muahahaha
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