Talk:Mars

From Acw

Gellert's October Mars Updates

Dude. Impressive detail. Are you a geologist IRL?
I'll try and do some work on the Soviet Martian society over the next week or so; just to try and do some catch up for the Humanities team. And, obviously, dovetail that with some of the USSR machinery of government that gets namedropped so often.
--Konstantin Sovietyevich 07:32, 7 October 2007 (EDT)

Palaeontologist but trained as a geologist and geomorphologist as well. Sorta got caught up in the hypothetical of what would happen if reality if you actually tried to terraform mars, but needed to get the geology of the planet sorted in my head to do that. Its probably a little more detailed than it needs to be but I guess it makes this wiki now educational as well.

If you could handle USSR stuff that would be great. I'll pick away at the German stuff and maybe have a think about the other planets geologically and topographically speaking. Geology makes a huge difference to where people place cities, defences etc, so if i get it sorted, it makes the extra-terrestrial colonies seem alot more believable.

The other thing i'd like to add to Mars is discussion about Solar radiation. Without a magnetic field, Mars has no way of deflecting the large amounts of radiation that the sun puts out and therefore the life expectancy of anyone living on the planet would be greatly reduced. Habitation areas could be shielded but this would mean that the colony could never truly be a new Earth (fairly important now) as you wouldn't just be able to walk around without protection. However the thickening of the atmosphere may somewhat abate the process (apparently that's how Venus deals with it). Will have a think about how best to implement it.

--Gellert Stoss 20:02, 7 October 2007 (EDT)