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DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform Mars

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  • 26-06-2015 12:03am
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    _Tombstone_
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    It’s no secret that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is investing heavily in genetic engineering and synthetic biology. Whether that excites or terrifies you depends on how you feel about the military engineering totally new life forms. If you’re in the excitement camp, however, here’s a nugget for you: DARPA believes that it's on the way to creating organisms capable of terraforming Mars into a planet that looks more like Earth.

    http://motherboard.vice.com/read/darpa-we-are-engineering-the-organisms-that-will-terraform-mars


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    Myrddin
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    Is that not all a pipe dream, given Mars has no magnetic field?


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    Taylor365
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    At what point is posting nothing but links spam?


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    nokia69
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    Myrddin wrote: »
    Is that not all a pipe dream, given Mars has no magnetic field?

    is it possible to have an atmosphere without a magnetic field ?


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    Captain Chaos
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    Not one like ours anyway as it is what stops the solar wind from blowing it away.

    Unless we can engineer a way to create a magnetic field around Mars or even a part of it the only way to live there is under ground.


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