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Why Elon Musk Needs 10,000 Nuclear Missiles To Bomb Mars?
Roscomos’ expert emphasized that humanity is currently unable to ‘reform’ the climate of Mars or Venus in any tangible way.
One of the most famous billionaires with crazy ideas, Elon Musk, has long cherished plans to bring 1 million people to settle on Mars in 2050. To make this happen, Elon Musk has devised different ways to turn Red Planet into a life-supporting planet in the shortest possible time.
Accordingly, one of Elon Musk’s most incredible ideas is that the billionaire wants to bombard two polar regions of Mars with a nuclear bomb. When detonated, the bomb will provide enormous heat to melt ice on Mars. This melting ice releases enormous amounts of CO2 into the Martian atmosphere, creating a greenhouse effect, thereby warming the planet’s temperature.
However, this idea of Elon Musk has faced many objections from scientists. In an interview with the TASS news agency on May 12, Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of long-term space science programs of Russia’s Roscosmos space corporation, said that billionaire Elon Musk must launch at least 10,000 nuclear warheads to realize this idea.
“If analyzed carefully, some of the plans put forward by SpaceX cannot be done with the technology platform we have. For example, for the plan to detonate a nuclear bomb…
