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Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!
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From hostile deserts, to lonely islands and the highest mountains,
wherever there is space to expand into humans do so.
So, it's hardly surprising that we're already making preparations
to set foot on Mars,
and to create the first permanent colony outside of Earth --
maybe even terraform another planet and turn it into a second blue home.
But wait,
before we can get to the nice future stuff,
we first have to complete the second phase of colonization;
creating a semi-permanent outpost
to prepare the ground for a larger human presence.
But doing so will be gruesome.
Even for an expansionist species like us, Mars is extreme.
At first glance, Mars seems familiar --
polar ice caps, large valleys,
liquid water under its surface,
and a day barely longer than Earth's.
The ideal place for us to go.
Unfortunately, Mars is actually a cold, radioactive desert
where the ground is poisonous and breathing is impossible.
Mars is awful.
You almost certainly don't want to go there.
The pioneers doing the hard work on Mars will have an intensely stressful life,
filled with incredibly challenging problems
never encountered before.
But there are plenty of people willing to do that work
and we have the technology to enable them to do it.
For this video, we will assume there have been prior missions to Mars
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