The Theory of the World

[Anti Hacker]

There used to be life on mars, because mars used to have water on its surface (this can be seen by the multiple water channels).

However, for whatever reason, the water is gone now and so is any life on mars. The microbes were ancient, and I'm sure upon further analysis were found to be semi-fossilized.

Mars would be easy enough to inhabit if it had an atmosphere. As long as you have an atmosphere you can just add on most else to a planet. Maybe for whatever reason mars' atmosphere was burned away and this caused it to lose fertility. I doubt any complex life developed on the planet.

[Little Killer]

There used to be life on mars, because mars used to have water on its surface (this can be seen by the multiple water channels).

However, for whatever reason, the water is gone now and so is any life on mars. The microbes were ancient, and I'm sure upon further analysis were found to be semi-fossilized.

Mars would be easy enough to inhabit if it had an atmosphere. As long as you have an atmosphere you can just add on most else to a planet. Maybe for whatever reason mars' atmosphere was burned away and this caused it to lose fertility. I doubt any complex life developed on the planet.

Mars does have an atmosphere, because the erosion process only goes on on a planet with an atmosphere. Also because it has dust storms, so I guess it has some sort of troposphere (weather atmosphere).

I think the reason to no life is since it rotates all funky. Like earth, it rotates but I think it doesn't rotate on an ecliptic, so it just rotates wherever, causing sever climate changes. Does anyone know if Mars has an ecliptic?

[nomercy]

I doubt it. However, the cause of the dust storms is probably due to the improportionate axis of revolvement, therefore causing strange weather.

[Anti Hacker]

The only way to understand that Mars had liquid water in its past is to suppose that it had a much thicker atmosphere, presumably one made of carbon dioxide. Long ago Mars lost its atmosphere. Where did it go? We think that most of it is tied up now in rocks. It's been turned into carbonate. It's been mineralized.

Mars has no atmosphere, or nothing thick enough to be considered one. It be in the rocks now. Solidified.

[Faulkie]

Technically Mars does have an atmosphere, but it's made up mostly of Carbon Dioxide. If I'm not mistaken, Earth was once like that.

*Checks chemistry revision guide*

Yeah, volcanoes on early earth gave off CO2 and water vapour. This vapour then condensed to become the oceans, and from this plants evolved to take in the CO2 and give off oxygen. Once this happened, animals that breathe oxygen could evolve. Also, an ozone layer which keeps it all in formed.

So there we go, the vital thing missing for that to happen on Mars is water vapour. Water IS the building block for life. But Mars has volcanoes yeah? So perhaps if these gave out water vapour like the early Earth ones did, the same could happen on there. It's fascinating.

Yeahh ok, I'm a chemistry nerd.

[Little Killer]

. . . I'm thinking of taking chemistry, but I don't want to overstress my school year.

Hmmm. A carbon atmosphere. I always would think the planet would be black.

I wonder what dark energy would appear to be.

[Cye Zero]

Since Mars's atmosphere is mostly made up of carbon dioxide then wouldn't it be possible to create oxygen on it if we plant some trees. If I remember science class well enough then trees absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. Making it possible for humans to survive on it.

I think this proccess is called terraforming.

[Faulkie]

Yeah, that's terraforming. And technically that would be possible. The only thing is that plants need water and nitrogen in the soil to grow, not to mention the correct climactic factors.

[Cye Zero]

We could find the proper location that would be best suited to grow the trees. Then we could transplant them into the soil, inject the proper nutrients, add water. And tada you'll create life on mars.

[Little Killer]

AND RUIN THE TRUE WAYS OF MARS! We shouldn't meddle with Mars' nature. . . It seems wrong. You know what I mean? Mars was meant to be like that.

Trees won't work. They need the soil to stay in one place. DUST STORMS occur everywhere there.

CLIMATE CONTROL CENTERS! Wow. This is the second time I thought about using this. . .