[Space] Terraformed Venus as a setting

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Mailanka

If we didn't have an artificial magnetic field, thus no ozone layer, how stable would the atmosphere be? Are we talking changes in a few centuries, or changes in many millenia?

Why would it make any difference at all? Actually, it might make the atmosphere *more* stable, since the ozone absorbs incoming energy in the ultraviolet at higher elevations, and higher temperatures at high elevations mean more gas escape.

Um, and why is lacking a magnetic field supposed to damage the ozone layer? If anything high energy radiation will generate more of it.