Elon Musk Clarifies His Plan to “Nuke Mars”

Remember a few weeks back , when Elon Muskexplainedhow we ought to nuke Mars to warm it up ? Well , the billionaire was really just speaking off the turnup , and so during a SolarCity launching event in Times Square yesterday , he decided he ought to clarify .

The founder of SpaceX does n’t want to nuke the surface Red Planet . He want to apply fusion bombs more powerful than any explosives we ’ve ever work up to blast the sky every few seconds , creating a irregular “ sun ” over each magnetic pole .

“ What I was talking about , ” tell Musk , “ was having a serial of very big , by our standard , but very little by disaster banner , essentially having two tiny throb suns over the poles . They ’re really above the satellite . Not on the major planet .

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“ Every several seconds , ” Musk continued “ send large fusion bombs over the poles . A lot of people do n’t appreciate that our sun is a giant fusion explosion , ” he added , to a reportedly understood interview .

What Musk keeps trying to explicate here is a dodge for heating up the surface of Mars quickly , in guild to make the major planet hospitable to constitute life . There ’s a lot of C dioxide locked up in Mars ’ pole as dry ice , and CO2 , as we know , is a herculean global thaw agent . If we release enough energy over the poles , we might just be able to beam all that CO2 skywards , warm the air enough to kickstart a positive feedback loop and a runaway greenhouse outcome . ( Check out my elaborated explainer on Martian terraforminghere ) .

In the conclusion , however , the billionaire ’s attempts to explicate Martian terraforming to the masses seem to only be solidify his mad supervillian image . For now , it might be best if Musk pose with crashing arugula into the ocean .

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