environmental – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:25:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 TIMELAPSE OF TERRAFORMING MARS (Turning Red Green) https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/timelapse-of-terraforming-mars-turning-red-green https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/timelapse-of-terraforming-mars-turning-red-green#respond Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:25:10 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/timelapse-of-terraforming-mars-turning-red-green

40 SpaceX Starships are terraforming Mars. Slowly transforming the Martian atmosphere, water begins to flow on the surface. Building the foundation for long term Mars colonization.

Going beyond the ‘First 10,000 Days on Mars’ and 2050, this is a timelapse look into the future.

Humans are surviving on Mars underground, in a crater habitat. A deep crater is enclosed, creating a mini Earth that is open and breathable. Tunnel diggers dig into the sides of the crater, creating more space and connecting other craters, landing pads, and lava tubes to form an underground Mars colony network… In part, inspired by: Mars garden quote: The Expanse — Chrisjen Avasarala Living on Mars — TED Talk by Stephen Petranek • https://youtu.be/t9c7aheZxls Andy Weir (The Martian) — Conversations With Joe • https://youtu.be/4dgwnhFf_6Y — Building on Mars — Articles Join the newsletter to read my new articles about “Building on Mars.” Or you can view them at my website: www.vx-c.com. • From Dust to Structures: How to Create Concrete and Metal on Mars • The (Not So) Simple Act of Building on Mars: The Engineering Challenges of Constructing on the Red Planet — A terraforming sci-fi documentary, and a timelapse look into the future of Mars colonization. — Book recommendations from Elon Musk on artificial intelligence, Mars, future technology and innovations, and sci-fi stories (affiliate links): • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies https://amzn.to/3j28WkP • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://amzn.to/3790bU1 • Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era https://amzn.to/351t9Ta • The Foundation: https://amzn.to/3i753dU • The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: https://amzn.to/3kNFSyW — Other videos to watch: • TIMELAPSE OF FUTURE SPACECRAFT: 2025 — 3000+ https://youtu.be/RL74Jb4OU9U • NASA 1958 — 2100 (Timelapse of past & future technology) https://youtu.be/2qaDEt7PCMI • MOON BASE — THE FIRST 10,000 DAYS (Timelapse) https://youtu.be/XOhz7ZBZ_1U

In part, inspired by:
Mars garden quote: The Expanse — Chrisjen Avasarala.

Living on Mars — TED Talk by Stephen Petranek.
https://youtu.be/t9c7aheZxls.

Andy Weir (The Martian) — Conversations With Joe.
https://youtu.be/4dgwnhFf_6Y

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How To Terraform Mars — WITH LASERS https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/how-to-terraform-mars-with-lasers https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/how-to-terraform-mars-with-lasers#respond Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:25:27 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/how-to-terraform-mars-with-lasers

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Mars is a disappointing hellhole lacking practically everything we need to stay alive. It looks like we’ll only ever have small crews spend a miserable time hidden underground. Except, we could terraform it into a green new world. But to solve the planet’s problems, we first need to make it worse and turn it into oceans of lava with gigantic lasers.

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NASA’s Titan Dragonfly will touch down on a field of dunes and shattered ice https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/nasas-titan-dragonfly-will-touch-down-on-a-field-of-dunes-and-shattered-ice Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:23:43 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/nasas-titan-dragonfly-will-touch-down-on-a-field-of-dunes-and-shattered-ice

NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s largest moon will touch down on a terrain of dunes and shattered, icy bedrock, according to a new analysis of radar imagery from the Cassini spacecraft.

Launching in 2027, Dragonfly is a rotorcraft that will arrive in 2034 and explore Titan from the air. Its range will be far greater than that of a wheeled rover, with Dragonfly capable of covering around 10 miles (16 kilometers) in each half-hour flight, according to NASA. Over the span of its two-year mission it will explore an area hundreds of miles or kilometers across. However, before taking to the sky on its own, Dragonfly must first arrive on Titan under a parachute, soft-landing on frozen terrain that is hidden from easy viewing by the dense hydrocarbon smog that fills the moon’s atmosphere.

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Scientists Want to Make Mars Conducive to Life. With an Artificial Magnetosphere? https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/scientists-want-to-make-mars-conducive-to-life-with-an-artificial-magnetosphere Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:24:35 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/scientists-want-to-make-mars-conducive-to-life-with-an-artificial-magnetosphere

Circa 2021


A new study says that we could terraform Mars by creating an artificial magnetic field around it to prevent harmful solar radiation.

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Weather Control and Geoengineering https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/weather-control-and-geoengineering Sun, 03 Jul 2022 06:26:00 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/weather-control-and-geoengineering

A look at advanced means of altering or controlling the planet’s climate and geography, drawing on concepts proposed for terraforming other planets. We look at existing and proposed ideas of controlling the weather, creating artificial islands or mountain ranges, using orbital mirrors and shades, and many other concepts.

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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/making-a-magnetosphere-for-mars Sun, 15 May 2022 18:03:02 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/making-a-magnetosphere-for-mars

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Episode 342, May 12, 2022
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New Idea From NASA: Trillions of Floating Balloons To Terraform Venus https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/new-idea-from-nasa-trillions-of-floating-balloons-to-terraform-venus Sat, 30 Apr 2022 23:03:24 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/new-idea-from-nasa-trillions-of-floating-balloons-to-terraform-venus

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Using steampunk to explain quantum physics https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/using-steampunk-to-explain-quantum-physics Sun, 03 Apr 2022 03:02:17 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/using-steampunk-to-explain-quantum-physics

What do quantum computers have to do with smog-filled London streets, flying submarines, waistcoats, petticoats, Sherlock Holmesian mysteries, and brass goggles?

A whole lot, according to Nicole Yunger Halpern. Last week, the joined Jacob Barandes, co-director of graduate studies for physics, to discuss her new book, “Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow.” In it, Yunger Halpern dissects a new branch of science—quantum thermodynamics, or quantum steampunk as she calls it—by fusing steampunk fiction with nonfiction and Victorian-era thermodynamics (the heat and energy that gets pumping) with . Yunger Halpern presents a whimsical lens through which readers can watch a “scientific revolution that’s happening in real time,” Barandes said, exploring mysteries even Holmes couldn’t hope to solve, such as why time flows in only one direction.

“This fusion of old and new creates a wonderful sense of nostalgia and adventure, romance and exploration,” Yunger Halpern said during a virtual Harvard Science Book Talk presented by the University’s Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and Harvard Book Store. In steampunk, she continued, “fans dress up in costumes full of top hats and goggles and gears and gather at conventions. What they dream, I have the immense privilege of having the opportunity to live.”

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Engage! Webb Telescope prepares to unlock the secrets of galactic evolution https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/engage-webb-telescope-prepares-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-galactic-evolution Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:02:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/engage-webb-telescope-prepares-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-galactic-evolution

The first galaxies in the universe are a mystery to us — but that could soon change.


The cosmos has come a long way (pun intended). But the most fantastic story of all time isn’t fully understood — especially the early chapters, ‘written’ in history during the first two to three hundred million years of the universe’s 13.8 billion-year existence.

The James Webb Space Telescope could be the key. The observatory can look about three times as far back in time than the iconic Hubble. The Webb will detect infrared wavelengths long enough to pierce through the dense smog of all the light and dust that sits between Earth and the furthest galactic posts, revealing information about the ancient universe where these wavelengths began their journey through space billions of years ago.

Although not quite yet ready to collect data, the Webb Telescope promises a level of perception made possible by its four instruments. These instruments can operate at the same time to siphon observations of objects like galaxies — maximizing the efficiency of the telescope.

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No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021, survey shows https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/no-country-met-who-air-quality-standards-in-2021-survey-shows Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:02:17 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/no-country-met-who-air-quality-standards-in-2021-survey-shows

SHANGHAI, March 22 (Reuters) — Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality standard in 2021, a survey of pollution data in 6,475 cities showed on Tuesday, and smog even rebounded in some regions after a COVID-related dip.

The WHO recommends that average annual readings of small and hazardous airborne particles known as PM2.5 should be no more than 5 micrograms per cubic metre after changing its guidelines last year, saying that even low concentrations caused significant health risks.

But only 3.4% of the surveyed cities met the standard in 2021, according to data complied by IQAir, a Swiss pollution technology company that monitors air quality. As many as 93 cities saw PM2.5 levels at 10 times the recommended level.

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