Originally Posted by Mikh

Hello,

during the podcast it was claimed that terraforming on Mars wouldn’t make any sense, since the solar wind would blow away any atmosphere build up by human technology. That may be so, but wouldn’t it take quite some time for the solar wind doing so? The “artificial” atmosphere would at least last thousands of years. Enough time at least for the colonization and exploration of Mars in length. Of course this is all quite hypothetical since the technological challenge would be so incredible big.