the oceans is abundantly available in the Kuiper
belt. Extracting it and moving it to Mars will be merely a technical
problem. The best way to add an atmosphere to Mars would be to initiate
widespread volcanic eruptions. The eruptions would provide the initial
gas. Environmental and genetic engineering can transform the original
volcanic gas into an atmosphere that we can breathe. So, after increasing
the mass of the planet, the next step in terraforming the planet will be
to establish a lot of volcanic activity.
A lot of internal heating will be necessary in order to create the desired level of volcanic activity on Mars. Internal heating of Mars can be caused in exactly the same way that it's caused in Earth, by the tidal forces of a large satellite. So, it will be necessary to construct a large satellite for Mars. Since our Moon does an adequate job for Earth, it seems reasonable that the new satellite of Mars should have about the same orbital radius from Mars as the Moon has from Earth, and the same mass as the Moon. Again, sufficient material is abundantly available in the asteroid belt. If we want to avoid volcanoes on the satellite, then it's rotation should be adjusted so that it always has the same side facing Mars. Thus, there won't be any tidal forces inside of the satellite. The temperature on Mars is too low for an earthlike biosphere to be self-sustaining. Mars might be made habitable at its present distance from the Sun but it would remain so only by the careful and constant technological maintenance of its biosphere. The only way to provide a self-sustaining biosphere is to increase the temperature on Mars to the same as that on Earth. A good way to do that would be to move Mars closer to the sun. The chunks of material that will be dropped onto the surface, to increase its mass, can be useful for that purpose. Although they'll be dropped in relatively small pieces, the cumulative effect will be substantial. That will be useful because energy and momentum are conserved, even in small amounts. If the chunks of material are dropped at the right times, in the right places, and at the right speeds, then they can be used to nudge Mars out of its present orbit and into a Lagrange point in Earth's orbit. Moving Mars closer to the Sun will solve the temperature problem. While that's being done, the masses might also be used to adjust the axial tilt of Mars, and its rotation period, to more precisely match those of Earth. They're already pretty close but it might be nice for Mars to have exactly the same seasons, length of year, and length of day, as Earth. There's one last step in the terraforming of Mars. Its new satellite must have a name. Although Phobos and Deimos might possibly be lost from Mars during its trip to its new orbit, there's clearly, obviously, only one possible name for the new satellite. It's the only name that's even worthy of consideration. The new satellite of Mars must be called Uppermos.
Sam Aurelius Milam III I see a lot of climate activists yelling, waving signs, and blocking traffic. They appear to be demanding that the various governments solve the climate problem for them, so that they don't need to solve any problems for themselves. The fact is that there are many things that can be done to reduce our needless waste of energy, and the associated needless generation of CO2, without waiting for a fascist police authority to make such things mandatory. Here are three small examples from among many possibilities. All over the nation, the owners of all of those buildings could replace those automatic doors with the kind that you push to open, just like our ancestors did. At the airports, they could turn off all of those slidewalks, and let people walk to their boarding gates, just like in the early days of passenger aviation. In the department stores, they could turn off the escalators, converting them to stairs, and let people walk up and down them. People movers of all kinds use energy needlessly. That corresponds to the needless release of CO2. Turning them off might not lead to a big reduction of CO2 generation, but the benefit of such small changes will accumulate. Also, all of that walking might reduce the need for so many exercise machines in people's homes, many of which also use electricity. Handicapped people, and others who can't walk up or down the stairs, can hire people to carry them. People who can't walk the distance that they need to walk, or carry the luggage that they need to carry, can hire people to carry them, their luggage, or both. In fact, this is an opportunity for a whole new service sector, a workforce of unskilled laborers who make a living by moving people and carrying luggage. Now, we just need to figure out what to call them.
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Yea Verily Even Thereunto Sam Aurelius Milam III Here's an article for people who believe that America is a Christian nation, and for those who like to claim God-given rights. Shown below are the numbers of occurrences of certain words in the King James Version of The Holy Bible. As is explained in the statement from the Revised Standard Version of The Holy Bible that I quoted in Raving Over Time, the King James Version is obsolete. Even so, that version is still the favorite of the Bible thumping evangelists. It's also the version that's used in my 1990 edition of Strong's concordance. That edition is The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, copyright © 1990. Different numbers will result from using different concordances or different versions of The Holy Bible.
Sound-Check Letter to the Editor
The Rubbin’ Out Sam Aurelius Milam III, Thursday, August 17, 1978 With thanks to Omar Khayyam The Moving Grader bites; and, having bit, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Lane, Nor all your Tears wash out a Curb of it. Stray Thoughts
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