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It is so frustrating to see all these misguided ideas about Mars. The problem isn't generating an atmosphere, it is the fact that there is no magnetic shielding around the planet. The solar wind is constantly stripping any gasses or water vapor from the planet. You could create a machine to create greenhouse gasses or whatever else but it would be gone in a flash, just like blowing out a candle.
yep, mars is doomed to underground or dome shielded colonies...
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The HAARP technologies are promising for restarting the core of mars, probably cheaper then drilling and trying to restart the core with nuclear of some kind or another. (either blowing it up , or dropping a meltdown pile in it.) The bigger issue is whether or not olympus mons will restart, and understanding the processes that led to it being so enourmous. Still anything that has been imagined will be real someday, to the degree that society can be convinced that they need it. (like the nautilus, (jules verne) the communicator, (cell phone, star trek) or the many skyscrapers envisioned above. Nice job on the skyscrapers by the way.
@mehome we have been playing with magnetism for a very long time. I think we could build a magnetic field and only turn it up when things get bad. Also the stripping process is very slow and happens over billions of years, we could literally ignore it for millions.
I'm still in the camp that supports partial teraformation at best. We have inflatable structures on earth they work well enough here and would work better on mars.
The cosmic radiation effects on humans is really overblown, it was invented by the man to keep us down.
How does a pile of burnt/melted styrofoam qualify as a skyscraper??