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       Send all the undesireable people to Mars?  Nice thought,
 but Mars isn't big enough!  It would be more practical to relocate
 those few that still have some decency.  That should only take
 a couple trips.
                                 gnr100@psuvm.psu.edu

    The fact that Mars isn't big enough is the whole point.  Everyone there
will be overcrowded and miserable, as they deserve.  Plus we, the worthy, won't
have to go through the trouble of packing our shit and leaving; they will.
To make things worse for them, their environment will be much more hostile than
ours, causing an incredible number of fatalities.  The Law of the Jungle (or
in this case, Wasteland) will take effect, and in a few hundred years they
might even be worthy of our communications.  Besides, we're not trying to
"conserve" anything by reducing the number of trips, are we?  The cost involved
would be well worth it.

                                        Nexroth

  You sound as if you want to mastermind this whole plot, to sit back and have
everyone work for you!  What gives you the right to rule, nay, the right to
live?  You think you don't deserve to die with everyone else?  You want to
outlive everyone and everything?  Heresy, it is heresy!  I banish thee back to
alt.slack where you shalt remember how to ask "Give me $20 or kill me," and
someone from alt.destroy.the.earth will kill you...  Everyone and everything
must be taken out, it is the nature of destruction.  There is no such thing as
the worthy...

PS: Speaking of $20, the "Raise A Great Old One Foundation" is in need of funds.
Please send $20 dollars so that I can order a plush, adorable Cthulhu which I
can raise for the followers...Gotta keep the faith....8)

In <93022.152027RSJ107@psuvm.psu.edu> <RSJ107@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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>    If we had something orbiting the Earth collecting enough energy to do most
>anything, the first thing we would have to do is heat up Mars.  You see, then

Here we go again:
	Collecting enough energy to "heat up a planet" requires an
	*enormous* surface area; even more if the mirrors are in Mars
	orbit (it's about twice the distance from the sun, so the
	sunlight is four times as diffuse), and I think there might
	be problems "forwarding" sunlight from Earth orbit (like
	keeping it on target).

See my last post for calculations on heating up the Earth, then see
if you can work out how much mirror surface you're going to need to
heat up Mars (say by 50K or so).

Then remember that you'll actually need more, because radiative losses
to space are not negligible; in fact, with a planet in equilibrium,
heat lost through radiation must *equal* total insolation.
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