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Originally Posted by Amaranthus
Teraforming Mars would be a lot easier that giving it an artificial magnetic field. All you really need to do is mobilise the subsurface gases, and/or bombard it with diverted Kuiper Belt objects. Read Zubrin!
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I remember reading somewhere that in order to terraform Mars properly, one of the things that would have to be done is to build huge factories manufacturing Chloro Fluoro Carbons and pumping them straight into the atmosphere since, unlike the dud CO2 that blankets Mars, CFCs are superb greenhouse gases.
Anyhow, it'll be interesting to see who colonises Mars first. The Project Orion nuclear rocket technology from the 1950s will be employed one day by someone, and that makes the whole exercise feasible. While people fiddle around with chemical rockets, it's just pie in the sky stuff.
Regards,
Renato