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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Solar Kilns - A Space Colony on Earth?

We are lucky we didn't lose any of our pollo astronots to raglet damage. Self growing or self repairing concrete is mater that would be amazingly useful here on earth. Your first ones would probably be inflatable, reflective mesh panels brought along from home. The image we paint then is one of bats for obtaining ice and scoop bots scooping materials for construction or manipulation into other forms. And those bats would likely bring along the electronics and raal materials that they might need Its building huge tanks of alga and huge rays of mirrors for aiming at solar kilns or solar panels or other solar thormal applications.

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