Terraform Mars!
“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.” - The Hitchhikers Guige to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
But are you implying that we are somehow more evolved than the monkeys? Both the human and the monkey in the story have evolved for the same amount of time since our last common ancestor.
Would you claim that they all traveled the same distance because they all traveled for the same amount of time?
Evolutionary space is very high dimension, which makes the argument that just projecting onto the (1d) time axis is misleading even stronger.
A thick enough atmosphere will stop pretty much all the charged particles from the normal solar radiation.
And clearly even our mag field (and Sun's heliosphere) is not enough to shield us from those crazy cosmic rays.
