Like parasites, India is dead set on spreading its people across the world for financial gain, and Trump seems to be more than happy to open the Pajeet floodgates.
Canada’s Pajeet problem is so bad that even the leftists hate them, and Pajeet replacement in America has been ramped up significantly in the tech sector these past few years, and will spread to other sectors soon enough. I’m tired of all of this bullshit and the seemingly never-ending push for more cheap, incompetent Pajeet labor.
An atmosphere would take millions of years to be stripped off by solar radiation, so we could simply produce it way faster than it depletes. Also there's already feasible ideas to put a giant superconductor at L1 to ward off radiation.
The real reason Mars isn't suitable is the best launch window is only every 15 years; at the 7 year midpoint it takes twice as much energy, and once every 2 years for any trip.
It's hard logistically. We'd have to go all-in on it and pay a huge price with overproduction or it'll take lifetimes to get the infrastructure set up.
One does not "simply produce" a breathable atmosphere, and no it's not millions of years either. Not in the quantities we're talking about here. Last I paid attention to it you're looking at ten years until potentially lethal degradation of atmospheric pressure.
Nor would a giant superconductor be without risk to the inhabitants either.
And yes the launch window is an enormous problem as well. One that is frankly not surmountable without basically inventing magic.
As far as logistics I mentioned it to the other guy and it bears repeating. The starting point we should be seeking is towing asteroids into orbit to be mined. This would essentially solve the resource portion of developing large scale spacecraft.
Over millions and billions of years, this solar wind gradually eroded the atmosphere
It's losing 100g/s which is nothing. A superconductor magnet at L1 would have no effect on the surface; the purpose is to deflect particles while they are far away so it takes less energy, not to encompass the planet (which would take ridiculous amounts of energy).
We can add more than 100g/s easily. Missing water and oxygen can be added from asteroids. It's not going to be easy or make it Earth 2.0, but we can certainly make it so if your suit gets a hole in it you can make it back to the dome.
I don't think you understood the point.
You aren't able to transpose that amount, and you certainly can't generate that much either. You don't get to use magical thinking and say "from asteroids" because that's a problem almost as big as the one in front of you already.
What you are suggesting essentially requires humanity to invent magic.
"The dome" means it's not terraformed lol. If you have to wear a suit outside you may as well not be doing anything at all for all the good it does you.
Please tell me how, with technology that is within reach of this generation, with as much detail as possible, and without hand waving anything, you propose to generate 100 g/s of breathable atmosphere in a place that can only be reached once every decade and a half.
100 g/s is like 15 people breathing. Across the whole planet. It's nothing.
One starship can lift 24 days worth, lots of gasses can be extracted from drilling and heating the Martian ground (there's still ice on the poles so there's certainly much more deep down), and the L1 magnet reduces loss to like small single digits grams.
There's tons of ice floating around in space that can be redirected to intercept mars orbit. Purposely crashing it into the planet doesn't cost much energy relatively speaking.
None of this is crazy technology. It's not warp drive, atmosphere on Mars is only a matter of wanting to do it, cost, and time.