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Re:Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-the... by bryanlarsen on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:01PM (#30375474)
Maintaining an atmosphere is a lot easier than creating it in the first place, and can use the same process and machines. In other words just live with the slow loss and replace the loss gradually.
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Re:Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-the... by revicon on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:45PM (#30376173)
I think what I meant is with no magnetosphere we would all die of radiation exposure regardless if there was a terraformed atmosphere or not. Without a magnetosphere we'd all be living underground anyway, no point in terraforming.
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