I prefer to think of it as "practicing our terra-forming techniques in
preparation for colonizing Mars".

:-)


Which might take time, but it's not that hard. The "hard part" about
making Mars habitable is not giving it an atmosphere, but giving it a
magnetic field. It is the magnetic field that shields us from cosmic
radiation (alot more so than the atmosphere).

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