[extropy-chat] Re: quabbin crater...

[Bret Kulakovich]

Hah!

I choked on Google maps. Sorry about that link. I heard Assawompset  
(thus, Lakeville link) was a larger body of water. Not by surface  
area at least. I had clicked over to Quabbin, and used the map key to  
guestimate. Not sure why the moving around wasn't reflected in my  
URL. Apologies.

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On Jul 29, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> Actually, you want to google map new salem, massachusetts to get
> quabbin, which is about 20 km long. I'm emailing you cause I'm out of
> posts for the day. If you want to respond, please do so to the list...
> thx.
>
> What I find so striking about the highest res jpg on that site is the
> pile of evidently large rocks at one edge of the pool of ice. It kinda
> looks to me like the crater was made by the impact of a comet which
> didn't totally vaporize on impact, but did melt its ice, leaving its
> rocky constitutents in a pile. If this is in fact the case, this  
> crater
> IMHO is a must visit location for a future mars mission of some kind,
> even a new rover mission.
>
> I have been thinking that a future martian terraforming project would
> want to drop a few comets on Mars to help bootstrap the effort to  
> begin
> geological outgassing of CO2. According to Martyn Fogg's text
> "Terraforming", an increase in atmospheric pressure of a few milibars
> and degrees will cause a rather massive outgassing of CO2 from rocks
> that will raise atmospheric pressure to 100 millibars and annual temps
> to those typical of Tibet. Using conventional industrial technology
> (CFCs) its been proposed that this could be done within 30 years. With
> a few significant cometary bombardments, this could be done in a few
> years, IMHO.
>
> Mike Lorrey
> Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
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