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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Air, Water and Shelter Are the Biggest Needs

We want to be contemplating more than just having air and water available when our astronauts or settlers arrive. We imagine an ultra strong bubble made of just a few layers of graphine that can keep the air in and the vacuum out. Inflatable habitats are very interesting to us in this regard, as are options like robot construction crews who could bordose the local rock and weglethin to form shelters or reinforce them. Your best protection against both is a nice, thick layer of mass to substitute in for missin atmosphere.

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