Terraforming

Terraforming Mars Turmoil Tops 10,000 Backers in First 24 Hours; On Track to be the Biggest Kickstarter Expansion of the Year

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Monday, April 22, 2019
Planetary engineering, Kickstarter, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming of Mars, Terraforming, Knowledge, Articles, Physical geography

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., April 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --On Tuesday of last week, the Kickstarter project for Terraforming Mars: Turmoil waslaunched by Stronghold Games in partnership with FryxGames.

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  • BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., April 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --On Tuesday of last week, the Kickstarter project for Terraforming Mars: Turmoil waslaunched by Stronghold Games in partnership with FryxGames.
  • Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours from the launch, this project had over 10,000 backers and is on pace to be the largest Kickstarterproject of the year.
  • That should not come as a surprise; Terraforming Mars is the international best-selling game designed by Dr. Jacob Fryxelius that has been published over 25 different languages.
  • View the Kickstarter , which just crossed $750k, over 3700% funded in less than one week, and follow our daily progress on Kicktraq .

Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology

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Monday, July 30, 2018
Outer space, Planetary science, Exploration of Mars, Astronomy, Planetary engineering, Space colonization, Open problems, Ecosystems, Terraforming, Mars, Martian, Colonization of Mars

Transforming the inhospitable Martian environment into a place astronauts could explore without life support is not possible without technology well beyond today's capabilities.

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  • Transforming the inhospitable Martian environment into a place astronauts could explore without life support is not possible without technology well beyond today's capabilities.
  • Although studies investigating the possibility of terraforming Mars have been made before, the new result takes advantage of about 20 years of additional spacecraft observations of Mars.
  • As a result, terraforming Mars is not possible using present-day technology," said Jakosky.
  • Taken together, the results indicate that terraforming Mars cannot be done with currently available technology.