Terraforming Planets

[Perfection]

Is that an assumption or do you have a link for that? I'm surprised we would know this but not how many nitrates are in the surface. (An alleged Mars meteor might show signs of past microbial life casting this in doubt, along with theories that oil is not a fossil fuel at all but instead bubbles up from somewhere inside the earth.)

While abiogenic oil presence is certainly a possibility there's very little evdence that these processes can give as nearly much as biotic.

Pshh! So?! We can just import it from Earth! (Assuming we have any left by then )

Nah, there's better sources of hydrocarbons.

Anyways, you'd also kinda need oxygen.

 

[Xen]

Right...

I would have a good deal less respect for you if you honestlly though i was makeing a (percieved by me) factual statement

Nope, there's no fossil fuels on Mars to pollute with.

thats in doubt- thier are theoris that Oil is a natural earth material- and thier was an article in a wired magazine a while back (at least 2 years ago) avbout some Ruskies drillign into a solid granite formaiton on the hunch of one fo the proponetns of that theory, and they, liek he said, found oil, ian place where no organisms have ever lived (because its a big ass block of granite)

(and that is ofcourse assumign that thier ar eno living organism son mars- if thier were, geological processe sover the last few billion years may have made what wa slef tof them into tidy little pockets of fossil fuel ready for us to pollute mars with

 

[Perfection]

I would have a good deal less respect for you if you honestlly though i was makeing a (percieved by me) factual statement

Here's what my thinking was, "either he's making a stupid statement, or a lame attempt at humor, either way rolleyes was approiate.

thats in doubt- thier are theoris that Oil is a natural earth material- and thier was an article in a wired magazine a while back (at least 2 years ago) avbout some Ruskies drillign into a solid granite formaiton on the hunch of one fo the proponetns of that theory, and they, liek he said, found oil, ian place where no organisms have ever lived (because its a big ass block of granite)

That would be among the rare pockets (and its abiotic nature is disputed)

Also may I add that Gold's theories require geologic activity something Mars has little of.

(and that is ofcourse assumign that thier ar eno living organism son mars- if thier were, geological processe sover the last few billion years may have made what wa slef tof them into tidy little pockets of fossil fuel ready for us to pollute mars with

well, then all you need is an oxygen rich atmophere to burn it in...