Elon Musk, billionaire SpaceX creator and interplanetary nuclear candidate.
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No, Elon Musk can’t obliterate Mars. At least, not that we understand of. Yet. But that didn’t stop the billionaire SpaceX creator and CEO from tweeting “Nuke Mars” on Thursday night, followed by “T-shirt soon.”
It’s not the very first time he’s recommended utilizing atomic innovation on the Red Planet. During a 2015 look on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Musk set out the concept behind obliterating Mars: To make the world habitable for colonists, he’d need to let loose as much greenhouse gas as possible to warm the world.
“The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles,” he stated. (Disclosure: “The Late Show” appears on CBS, which is likewise the moms and dad business of CNET.)
NASA-backed 2018 research study, nevertheless, is hesitant of the possibility. It concludes there simply aren’t adequate greenhouse gases on Mars to do the job.
“As a result, terraforming Mars is not possible using present-day technology,” stated the lead scientist.
SpaceX didn’t right away react to an ask for remark.
