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Old 19-05-2008, 02:58 AM
Ian Robinson
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Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
Most of my astronomy books (about 20) are fairly mainstream.
The only slightly unusual text I have is:

"Terraforming: Engineering Planetary Environments" - Martin J Fogg, 544 pages

Cheers,
Jeff
Sounds like an interesting read.

Does it go into the detailed geophysics and geochemistry or is more aimed at lay people ?

A proposal I read about once was diverting comets to collide with Mars to provide water and eventually promote a mild greenhouse effect as the atmosphere thickened and the partial pressure water vapour in the marsian atmosphere increased.
There might be a good use for all those thousands of nuke warheads the yanks, russians, french , indians, pakistanis, chinese, israelis and brits have , ie diverting comets.
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