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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is It Possible to Scale Out in Space?

I just love the idea that somebody's born on Mars or out in space. You have to be like, this is not actually like the original home. It's them looking at Earth and being like,This is where it came from. I don't know, that's really inspiring to me. What if they do in that area? There's great sci-fi about people being born on Mars because it's a lower gravity environment. And then they come back to Earth and they're like second class citizens asgravity is too strong for them. If we were to succeed in having human societies grow up in different pockets, it's not necessarily going to be easy for them to always come back

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