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Originally Posted by Eclipse Now
(To moderators.... Woah, see, now this conversation has gone back to teraforming Mars! Can we just put this back into the main Mars thread and call it "Living on Mars?" And maybe strip out the 10 pages of Panspermia "Death from space bugs" stuff and rename that bit?)
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I agree, it's difficult to conceive of colonizing Mars without at least starting to terraform it but initially the colony would have to under a layer of soil at least.
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So in your opinion, atmosphere would do the trick and act as a "good enough" radiation shield?
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Yes in my opinion but we have been looking at this for a very short period of time, there could be ramifications to not having a magnetic field we are unaware of and creating an atmosphere is a great idea but how do you do it? How long does it take? Underground would seem to be the best short term answer. to add to this I'm not sure how much radiation in the form of charged particles would reach the ground on Mars now? Are other forms of radiation more important? (or more dangerous?)
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