Should we blast a giant hole into Mars?

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  1. Thats the kind of ideas i get when i smoke, they are feasible, but it would take alot of money to make it happen. My favourite idea that i always go back to in intervals is: Underwater cities
    To build underwater cities where everything is recycled and we produce electricity through water pressure/buoyancy. Im not an engineer or anything but….Well i got solution for most of the most obvious needs. Wish i could eleborate and test some theories i have. I had this idea 25 years ago and todays technolgy has brought it to the brink of being doable. Give the world a break and move into the oceans while the surface have a chance to fix itself. While we are down there we might actually discover many things, there is an abundance of minerals and ore in the oceans, 70% of the planet is submerged, we should focus as much on exploring the worlds oceans as we do other planets. wow, this turned out to be a book, well nobody will read it, but its nice to get thougts outside of you head sometimes, give them some air and see if any new ideas are born outside of my own head. Be safe and take care in this crazy time we live in, be the light you seek in others. Love the channel and hope to get more cool videos like this.

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  2. So I went down a rabbit hole about as far as my intelligence/education/patience could go, and my incomplete math & numbers determined that Cody's Hole (That's now its official name) would steal approx. 3% of Mars' TOTAL atmosphere. This is assuming the entire hole would have 1.3kg/m^3 density (~Earth norm) which is obviously incorrect but I don't know how to calculate the variable pressure vs narrowing radius, so I guess what I've actually got is a very sloppy upper bound for the amount of atmosphere this would remove from the rest of Mars.
    My numbers:
    65,449,846,949,787 m^3 volume in Cody's Hole (This assumes a cone point going to zero. Again, limits of what I can do) 6.5×10^13
    1.13kg/m^3 Earth norm density
    85,084,801,034,723.1 Kg total mass of atmosphere inside Cody's Hole 8.5×10^13
    2,500,000,000,000,000 Kg Total mass of Mars' atmosphere (Source: Wikipedia) 2.5×10^16
    85,084,801,034,723.1/2,500,000,000,000,000 = 0.03403 = 3.4%

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  3. This is the most practical solution I've heard for making a habitable area on Mars that doesn't involve living in caves. Heating the planet just depletes all the gas reserves in a few thousand years. Electromagnetic fields don't do much when average velocity of nitrogen is higher than the escape velocity of Mars.

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  4. "I say we take another asteroid…. And hit it again…. Again and again and again" πŸ˜‚

    Commander the rebels were already incinerated beyond recognition….. Calm down sir, someone give the commander a glass of water.

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  5. At that point, we should push phobos against the planet at an angle that will make the biggest hole and not to mention that the matter doesn't have the same mass as on earth, maybe those kind of holes might be easy to obtain with just regular explosives…

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  6. sooooo instead of just building a few domes on mars until there's enough terraforming going on, your solution is "just nuke it to exterminatus and back till it becomes habitable"? :'D

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  7. Ok but what would the Delta-V requirements be to move even one ~5+ km stony asteroid (chondrite seems impractical to push) into a collision course with Mars within a human lifespan? What would the fuel requirements be like to achieve that Delta-V with an object of that size? What would the fuel requirements be to get that fuel to the asteroid in the first place? How large would the crater from that large of a bomb just set off on the surface of Mars be lol?

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