Science fiction taught us that Mars cities are inevitable. That we will sooner or later have those cool looking glass domes with spaceports and stuff. But the world is a cruel place and reality is unforgivable. So, how will a realistic Mars habitat of the future will look like? Discussing it with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. 📖 “A City on Mars“ by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith 🦄 Support us on Patreon: 📚 Suggest books in the book club: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:10 Space sucks. The Reality of living in space 00:09:35 Why go to space 00:22:28 Minimum size of the population 00:30:30 Fascination with the apocalypse 00:33:51 Simulating Mars missions 00:38:12 Childbirth is space 00:40:24 Technological progress 00:44:32 Economical growth 01:01:38 Current obsessions 01:05:21 More thoughts and more interviews 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: Astronomy Cast: 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Mastodon: @fcain Twitter: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@ ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.
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