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Giving Mars a Magnetic Shield In Our Lifetime For Cheap(www.youtube.com)

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Very awesome creator who is in-depth and does great videos on anything space related.

Thought this video on him talking about Mars was interesting. Haven’t heard of the “iron rod” tactic of creating a magnetic field.

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I read that the process of atmospheric erosion is so slow that a magnetic field would be more or less unneeded. If you built up a thick enough atmosphere on Mars that it was breathable you would have millions of years before it became untenable again.

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Yup! It’s more so speed and cost.

You could make the “Ferro-rod” technique discussed in the video for the absolute cheapest, quickest and it’s entirely possible for us to do now in our current technological development. Plus…what does Martian soil have a lot of?

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