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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Moon's a Lunar Base Before Mars

silicon is very abundant on the moon's surface. Carbon and silicon are plentiful on many astroids too. And it is decently likely that we could get age manufacture running on the moon. Though i should also note that when it comes to lightweight filler, that ao cell is likely your king. We can spin that out of carbon or silicon, so long as we have both the power to do so and a supply of either of those two materials. So might do that in a month long production cycle, like growing sino bacteria for two weeks, harvesting it, then letting the left ovas be a microcultural substrait for two weeks. Getting those mushrooms and then baking and comp

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