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

May 26th, 2025
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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.

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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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