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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🟣 Guest: Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis

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📜 The Case for Mars Terraforming Research

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02548-0

• 00:00 Intro

• 01:34 Why Mars sucks

• 02:23 Old ideas to terraform Mars

• 11:00 New technologies

• 31:52 Timescales

• 37:00 Ethical consequences

• 46:39 Current obsessions

• 53:39 Final thoughts

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