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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    I just had an idea and I was brainstorming with experts to check if it works.
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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    >>it will just freeze again. Probably the clouds will bear water if we heat it up.
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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    Here is my calculation. But before i calculate i would like you to read the below url contents and especially the reply by Floris. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/12657/how-fast-does-an-ice-cube-melt-in-a-microwave ---> (1) He would also have referred to...
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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    Microwave oven uses 1200 Watts for 30 minutes a day, the info obtained from http://energyusecalculator.com/electricity_microwave.htm A long radio wave is at resonance for ice and it is easy to melt ice at this frequency than at microwave frequency. Probably you need to send Radio wave inside...
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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    MegaPower project can produce upto 10MWe as mentioned in http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-nuclear-applications/transport/nuclear-reactors-for-space.aspx
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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    Probably you need nuclear powered reactor in space. AFAIK, Americans and Russians have sent reactors to space.
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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    I don't have the actual numbers. But If were able to heat up the ice in 10 square meters within 10 seconds. Use 100 satellites to do the same job. It will be 1km * 10 meters every 10 seconds, per day it will be 24 * 60 * 6 = 8640 kilometers * 10 meters every day. In an year we can cover 8640 *...
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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    In microwave ovens, Microwave heats only the food and not the container & surrounding air. This electromagnetic energy, when it reaches water molecules, charges them, thus in turn heats them. In my case, I don't think I heat the air through which microwave passes and i just heat up the ice. That...
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    Fill Mars with Water: Explore Elon Musk's Plan & Alternatives

    Look into this url https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/mars-20070315.html Some points to note are * The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep. * The radar sees through icy layers to the lower...
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    Space Travel with balloon assist

    If we have technology to build a tube, i agree we just can climb up. I just have another question. When a balloon floats over water due to buoyancy, the entire balloon completely floats over water. Is this the case with balloons over atmosphere? If so, we can have a big balloon filled with...
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    Space Travel with balloon assist

    > What do you want to do when you get to the top of the tower? Even though I originally had idea to use it in mars, if I use it on earth,I may want to dissent down, I will use a slightly heavier gas to dissent.
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    Space Travel with balloon assist

    Bandersnatch, let me come to the original reason why i was thinking about this. Elon Musk wants to send humans by 2025 to Mars and I guess it is one way trip. I was wondering if it is possible to have two way trip by some means.Then balloons may be a feasible technology than levitation...
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    Space Travel with balloon assist

    Yeah I agree this is a challenge-able, but I do think we have technology now to do it. My solution would be to have several tube+gas suspended at different heights. When I have anything concrete on implementation I will keep posted.
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    Space Travel with balloon assist

    Thanks a lot for the answers.Here is my question in response to your answers. What if we have suspended a hollow cylindrical structure from 100km to 36km and fill it with oxygen. Both top and bottom sides of the cylinder are closed and the enclosed pipe has oxygen in it. And when the balloon...
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    Space Travel with balloon assist

    Near space travels with balloons. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/05/tech/balloons-fly-edge-of-space/index.html look at above link. balloons goes just 36 km above Earth surface. but Earth orbit is 100 km away. so my thinking is if we pump oxygen outside near helium balloon artificially when u...
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