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I'd say a couple hundred million years is enough time to figure out how to make an artificial magnetosphere and put an end to all this solar wind outgassing nonsense.

>>3327005
When do we get a permanent colony on mars?

Space stations are cool and all, but to really increase our odds of long term survival as a species we have to colonize other moons and planets in the long run.
Keeping a small space station completely self sufficient is difficult; Keeping an entire world self sufficient really isn't.
The ringworld idea would require disassembling most of the non-stellar mass in a solar system, and would probably require Type 1 civilization tech, not to mention energy; We already have a nearly habitable world less then a few AU away that we could have terraformed and ready for unmodified terrestrial life within a few hundred years.

Why not start now?

Yep. Mars is a pretty cool place.

>>3087920
Definitely terraforming mars; could easily make it habitable for terrestrial life in a few hundred years, and with advances in life extension it might just be possible that humans alive today could live to see that.

also inb4 no magnetosphere, a good atmosphere shields from most solar radiation. And it would take hundreds of millions of years for the atmosphere to bleed off into space from solar wind. Enough time for us to either invent an artificial magnetosphere, or just gradually replenish the atmosphere with low-level, constant terraforming processes.

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Terraform mars, go!