If we can t terraform Mars, all else is also beyond our ambitions. Don t worry about whether it s liquid. It will be when we re ready to use it, after we finish pounding and heating the planet. From this viewpoint, whether water on Mars is liquid now doesn t matter at all. If the Environmental Protection Agency isn t screaming at us, it s because they don t yet take us seriously.
Genocide is a recently invented word, though the crime is much older.
I took bashing Mars with Jovian moons as an extreme case. But now we have the biggest mountain in the universe , with a crater you could house the Hawaiian islands in. We have a canyon that could swallow Earth s Grand Canyon. A vastness of crescent dunes. Polar ice flow that hasn t been studied.