On Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 1:44:43 AM UTC+1, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 23:24:01 +0200 (CEST), "Anonymous Remailer
(austria)" wrote:

Mars has no magnetic field and relatively weak gravity. Could you
even add oxygen as fast as it would be lost? And once you got
enough oxygen there the atmosphere would still be too thin for a
human to breathe.

The numbers I've seen suggest that it's feasible to create an oxygen
atmosphere of reasonable pressure in about a thousand years just
scaling existing technology, and that such an atmosphere probably has
a life of around 100 million years.

The slogan 'run the numbers' has always brought a smile as running numbers was originally a product of the 1920's -

https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...ning%20numbers

Of course the engineers mean it in a different sense but this simulation business on a planetary scale is for those who have no feel for planetary sciences and are just letting their imagination run wild.


It is time for engineers to run the numbers on timekeeping and come to an understanding about the limitations of modeling motions using a system which is founded on astronomical cycles.