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[Interview] 3 Key Technologies to Start Terraforming Mars in Our Lifetime

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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.

🦄 Support us on Patreon:
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🟣 Guest: Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis
https://www.erikadebenedictis.com/

📜 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

📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/tpFFKCF4-BA

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⚖️ LICENSE
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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.

🦄 Support us on Patreon:
https://patreon.com/universetoday

🟣 Guest: Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis
https://www.erikadebenedictis.com/

📜 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

📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/tpFFKCF4-BA

📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter
No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter

🎧 PODCASTS
Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/
Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/

📩 CONTACT FRASER
[email protected]

⚖️ LICENSE
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Support Universe Today Podcast

  continue reading

1468 episodes

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