{"id":3159,"date":"2019-09-23T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:43:17","slug":"elon-musk-wants-to-drop-nuclear-bombs-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/elon-musk-wants-to-drop-nuclear-bombs-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Wants To Drop Nuclear Bombs on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars. \u00a0He seriously wants to bombard the surface of red planet with actual nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musk wants to transform Mars into a livable planet for humans <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that average temperature on Mars is about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius)? This is due to the fact that Mars\u2019s atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth\u2019s. In the absence of \u201cthermal blanket,\u201d Mars can\u2019t retain any heat energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuclear explosion will warm the red plant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musk suggested dropping a big nuclear bomb\u00a0on the poles to warm the red planet. By using bombs on planet\u2019s poles ice will melt, which will result in release of carbon dioxide into its atmosphere, ultimately kick-starting a rapid greenhouse effect.<\/p>\n<p>Musk believes this will increase the planet\u2019s atmospheric temperature to that of Earth\u2026 making conditions livable for humans.<\/p>\n<p>Musk seems to be serious about nuking Mars; he even plans to start selling \u201cNuke Mars\u201d t-shirts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fSq4ozXdaS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/spacex-imagery-885857\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;amp;utm_content=693215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX-Imagery<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;amp;utm_content=693215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Article Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrytap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Industry Tap<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars. \u00a0He seriously wants to bombard the surface of red planet with actual nuclear weapons. Musk wants to transform Mars into a livable planet for humans Did you know that average temperature on Mars is about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius)? This is due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,56],"tags":[1124,1145,1144,1125],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}