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Right, but the idea is that if you had an atmosphere with a higher partial percentage of O2 you could get by with far less inert gas filler, which makes terrafo
by jandrese 2y ago
Right, but the idea is that if you had an atmosphere with a higher partial percentage of O2 you could get by with far less inert gas filler, which makes terraforming a bit less daunting. You could imagine an atmosphere with 35% O2 at 0.3 atm being possibly habitable and requiring many trillion less tons of material added to Mars.
- gus_massa 2y agoCody's Lab has a few interestig videos about burning things in pure oxygen. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSeHSDc-Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSeHSDc-Do So it's no so simple becuae you can't just ignore the 80% of nitrogen and use only the 20% of oxygen. (IIR/UC the problem is that the nitrogen absorbs heat, so the pure 20% of oxygens burn things too easily.)