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by M_Grey 3361 days ago
Well, to do it all at once you'd need an icy planetoid, but that's not realistic at all. More "realistic" would be a fleet of robot probes designed to steer water ice laden asteroids onto a collision course with Mars. It would be like building up water a snowflake at a time, and it would be touch to manage. If you do it before an atmosphere starts to develop, you'll lose a lot of it. If you start to do it later though, you're going to be kicking up a lot of dust, but maybe that could be put to some use.