"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    And even if it worked (and it would take a LOT of nukes to work) … well, congrats: now Mars has an atmosphere – a highly radioactive atmosphere.

    Thanks to Mars’s lack of a magnetic field, high radiation levels are already a concern. Adding even more radiation into the mix really isn’t going to help any of your terraforming goals.