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I'm not sure which is more practical. Diverting enough material to replicate earth's natural magnetic core system on mars into the planet, or building an artif
by mjevans 3y ago
I'm not sure which is more practical. Diverting enough material to replicate earth's natural magnetic core system on mars into the planet, or building an artificial system. The knowledge gained from attempting either is likely valuable.
- ben_w 3y agoSynthetic magnetic field is much easier than messing with the planet's core. Put a relatively small power plant in the Sun-Mars L1 point, and attach to a big conductive ring: https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...
- marcosdumay 3y agoFucking journalists publish an article with magnetic dipole measured in Teslas... So I go to the linked paper, and it has basically the same contents, on basically the same wording, with the magnetic dipole measured in Teslas. It appears that at some point, somebody involved with this knew what they were doing. But we are removed so many steps from that person, that anything said there could as well be Star Trek techno-jumble. Including the conclusions.