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[Interview] 3 Key Technologies to Start Terraforming Mars in Our Lifetime
56 minutes Posted May 26, 2025 at 9:00 pm.
Intro
Why Mars sucks
Old ideas to terraform Mars
New technologies
Timescales
Ethical consequences
Current obsessions
Final thoughts
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Terraforming Mars is usually considered in the realm of science fiction. But actually we have technology to start doing it in our lifetime and achieve some meaningful results it a timescale of tens of years, not thousands. What are they? Finding out in this interview.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02548-0
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