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Old May 9th 07, 11:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Kev
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Default OT a bit - fly to the moon or Mars?

On May 9, 5:49 pm, (Mutts) wrote:
Terra forming Mars?

Now something like that is very very far off I know. And there is a giggle
factor.


I recall an article (Popular Science? Discover?) about a decade ago,
which detailed how to terraform Mars. At the time, they figured it
would take 50-100 years, at a mere $150 million a day (one third to
one half the cost of the Iraq war). Costly, but if shared by all the
nations, quite doable... and the result is more or less another Earth,
with thinner air.

Just think of the vacation possibilities. Heck, I've seen Earth
tourist hotels that probably took more effort ;-)