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Re:Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-the... by kdbeall_ on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:56PM (#30376315)
I'm not firmly in the terraforming camp, but something I'd like to point out is that humans don't need exactly 1 atm. About 0.5 atm would be sufficient. It's analogous to what is found in Bolivia's altiplano. Mar's gravity is sufficient to hold onto oxygen and nitrogen.
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Re:Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-the... by 0_____0 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:03PM (#30376412)
True, although if you've fixed the "atmosphere gets stripped away" problem, you've achieved the hard part.
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