How to build for human life on Mars | Melodie Yashar

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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We're going to be building on the Moon this decade -- and next will be Mars, says space architect Melodie Yashar. In a visionary talk, she introduces her work designing off-world shelters with autonomous robots and 3D printers and explores how it might help uncover radical solutions to some of the problems troubling humans on Earth today.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:07.8	Scientists are making strides in exploring and one day maybe getting humans to Mars.
0:13.7	In order for us to survive out there, it takes the design and engineering of people like
0:18.3	Melody Yashar, a space architect.
0:21.2	In her visionary talk at Ted 2022, Yashar introduces us to the protective structures being built
0:27.1	to protect us in otherworldly frontiers.
0:31.2	That's after the break.
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0:37.7	On this show, we talk to some of the world's most interesting people to dig into the provocative
0:42.8	and powerful ideas of our time.
0:45.4	On the latest episode, Dr. Chanda Prescott Weinstein talks about her quest to decode the
0:51.0	universe and her own search for meaning.
0:53.9	You can be pretty miserable as a scientist if you go into science only wanting to get
0:58.6	to the answers because most of your life is the process of getting there and sometimes
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1:11.2	Let's imagine together we've gone on an eight-month journey and arrived to the planet Mars.
1:19.0	Yes, Mars.
1:21.8	Somehow we'll have to figure out how to build protective and durable structures to shield
1:27.7	us against solar radiation, galactic cosmic rays and extreme temperature swings.
1:36.1	On a Mars mission, there's only so much that we can bring with us from Earth and it's
1:40.1	prohibitively expensive to launch tons and tons of construction materials into space.
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