That is way off topic,indeed.Somebody wants to hijack my thread for Vanilla Ice,I see.
Have no fear! I bring tidings of doom and the inevitable destruction of the Earth. :stickout
Yeah, the Earth may end but humanity can still live but we'll pretty much have to be off the Earth before it ends for that to happen (depending on how Planet Earth ends). I'm betting on bio-weapon plague anywho (and praying I survive it as well) but the thing that scares me is the Mayan prophecy and the Aztec interpretation of it (aka "there shall be a great shaking of the Earth and from this we shall all perish"). Wonder what the hell that's supposed to mean. Funny thing is an important event in our planet's history always seems to happen whenever this one event occurs (aka aligning with the galaxy's center). The 1st was the supposed destruction of Atlantis and the next was the end of the Ice Age. I wonder what will happen this time?
The Mayan and Aztec "prophecies" are hooey. While I have great reverence for their skills as astronomers, they built their strange time-keeping cycles entirely on astronomy. Forgive the
ad hominem attack, but they also happened to be savages who conducted ritual sacrifice in order to keep the sun happy. The galactic alignment on 2012 will be the same as every other galactic alignment that happens every year on December 21st, in which nothing "happens". There is no "orbital alignment" that causes gravity or electromagnetic fields to change/shift. If this were the case, then Earth would be too unstable to live on, assuming it had formed at all.
Only possible if we invent nanites (not only to terraform Mars but also to make it so we don't suffer from depressurization (Mar's is smaller than Earth and thus doesn't have the same level of pressure).
Theoretically, it is possible. Mars has water, which would make the process much easier. The surface pressure has to be increased
(thicken up the atmosphere; we're good at that), and oxygen-producing bacteria - and eventually; trees - have to be introduced. The only hitch in that plan is the next time Mars is hit by solar wind, all will be destroyed. Mars completely lacks a magnetosphere. Mars will have to wait until we can generate a planet-wide Magnetosphere
(I cannot even fathom such a design :rolleyes).
I would suggest terraforming the moons of Gas giants, but their own Magnetospheres have a habit of trapping highly-charged particles within them, which is almost as dangerous as solar wind itself. Need I even bother going into how long a journey that would be on a "Chinese fastest shuttle"? XD Besides, we can get things to Mars in under a year. :stickout
Oh and I should point out that the EM flip idea is not hooey. It's actually hogwash. No, if humanity survives man-made events then we will likely be destroyed by our own mother, the Sun. She gets a little bitchy when she's PMSing, which is a couple billion years away.
