Elon Musk's ABSURD NEW Plan To Nuke Mars

Stephen Hawking believed humans needed to vacate Earth in order to avoid annihilation.
He wrote that climate change and the looming possibility of a nuclear war put humans in grave danger.
Mars, or as you may call it, the Red Planet is indeed our neighbor.
And when we think of it, we imagine a ferociously hot planet, full of deadly gases and – to some, aliens of various sorts.
However, contrary to popular belief, it is unbearably cold – pertaining to its distance from the sun.
Its average distance from the Sun is a whopping 247 million kilometers!
.. which means that there is not enough sunlight to sustain human life and maintain a habitable temperature.
With an average temperature of -80 degrees Fahrenheit or -60 degrees Celsius, the Red Planet is -12 degree Celsius colder than Antarctica’s average climate.

And though there is zero evidence of biological life on the Red Planet, the planet used to
have essential elements that contribute to Mars' suitability for life.

Regardless of this obvious challenge to humankind’s ambitions to inhabit Mars, Elon Musk is ever ready to come up with new solutions that might seem utopian to many people.
One of such ideas is to nuke mars, yes! You read that right.
NUKE Mars with the intention of Terraforming it.
Though Mars and Earth are similar in some characteristics, one notable difference between the two planets of our interest is that Mars is not capable of causing the Greenhouse Effect!
Now, this may come as a shocker to a few of you that Mars is unable to do that because the planet is composed mainly of Carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas.
The catch is that some theories suggest that most of the Red Planet’s Carbon dioxide has vanished while a fraction of that has been absorbed into Mars’ polar ice caps.
Also, the planet has very thin air, unfamiliar to the people of Earth, which implies that the idea of roaming around the new home without a life gear would be a foolish idea.

Coming onto Musk again, the space enthusiast does not find the absence of a human-friendly atmosphere and the absence of greenhouse effect as a deal-breaker.

He suggests that these challenges would serve to humanity’s benefit by forcing them to innovate and think outside the box.

So how exactly can one make Mars inhabitable?

To terraform Mars would mean to convert the Red Planet into a livable one.

Though NASA in 2018 disagreed with Musk’s idea that Mars could be altered to sustain human life, he disagreed and in 2019, reiterated the belief that the current atmospheric condition of the planet can be tampered with.

As indicated by a public statement by NASA, the current Martian air itself comprises generally of carbon dioxide, it is extremely thin and cold to sustain fluid water.

On Mars, the pressure of the air is less than one percent compared to the pressure of Earth's atmosphere. Any fluid water on a superficial level would rapidly vanish or freeze.

Musk intends to go ahead with his eccentric plans and nuke the Red Planet’s CO2 deposits.

Nuking Martian polar ice caps will thicken the planet’s atmosphere and will increase its temperature which would lead to a greenhouse effect like that on Earth.

This would help keep the harmful Ultraviolet Radiation away from the atmosphere and may trigger a chain reaction that would generate water.

To make this possible, Elon Musk needs around 10 to 15 thousand nukes to strike our neighboring planet.

A brief example of the devastation a single nuclear device can cause can be the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where more than a hundred thousand people vanished into thin air.

By using this method, Elon Musk believes that humans would be able to colonize Mars by 2050.

However, he is not planning to attack the planet, yet.

He has made it unambiguous that he will detonate the nukes just right above the Martian poles specifically.

The following non-radioactive explosions will then replicate the Sun’s heat artificially which will melt the polar ice caps that contain carbon dioxide reserves that date back to at least 4 billion years!

If done correctly, the idea of humans walking around the Red Planet as shown in films like ‘Martian’ would not be that of a distant dream.

Now all of it must have made you ponder whether the plan comes with zero risks and the answer is clear...

NO.

It is full of things that could go wrong and one of those possibilities is the occurrence of a nuclear winter that may follow suit after the successful detonation of more than about ten to fifteen thousand nuclear devices.

Contrary to what Musk intends, a nuclear winter can cause an aggressive period of cooling lead by the blocking of direct