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![]() You'll need some heavy equipment to terraform Venus. Like an airmaker.
See also the first instance of the word terraform in Jack Williamson's 1941 story Collision Orbit.
I can't resist mentioning that the first time I ever heard of "making air" was in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:
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