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Traveling Around Other Worlds

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Future of Solar Power on Mars

Jets on mars don't seem as vib as on earth. I suspect major air travell there would be in the form of something like a scrammd et powered by mike wave energy being beamed in from orbitals or ground sources. Having an abled aircraft with already existing assets powering bases below, seems a potentially good way to allow many distant, small communities to operate and interact without necessarily needing nucleor power houses or rovers or planes. We ere out of luck on fossil fuls, though. We have found trace amounts of methang whose origins are still rather mysterious, and we may find pockets of it we could exploit. None the less.

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