the Idea of American entrepreneur Elon musk to make a bombing Mars with nuclear warheads monstrous and inhuman, while it is backed up by US military interests. This opinion was expressed on air of the channel “Soloviev LIVE” on Youtube, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin.
Recall, Musk proposed using a nuclear bomb to improve the atmosphere of Mars. According to the calculations of the head of the space company SpaceX, this will lead to evaporation of frozen carbon dioxide, which forms the ice caps at the poles of Mars. The evaporated gas will make the atmosphere more dense and cause the greenhouse effect, leading to temperature rise, but in the end will make the Martian climate is the same as on Earth.
“obviously, the idea looks horrible from the standpoint of humane considerations. Who gave him the right to destroy the planet?!” – said Rogozin.
According to him, “for this demagoguery” hidden only “a cover for the elimination of nuclear weapons in space.”
“We see such attempts, consider them as unacceptable and take all possible to prevent it”, – said Rogozin.
On the question of the presenter about whether Russia is able to answer this kind of attempts, the head of Roscosmos answered in the affirmative.
Informed about the same Rogozin wrote in his Twitter, concluding that the United States “take a course on militarization of space.”
