Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

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Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In the future we will build outposts and bases in space and on distant worlds, but what if we could make it so they built themselves instead? Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Check out the Namibia Bio-Hab Project: https://www.bio-hab.org/ and Redhouse Studio's myco-blocks: https://www.redhousestudio.net Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/9aRrk8EyTDM Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode's Audio-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/self-growing-habitats-space-bases Episode's Narration-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/self-growing-habitats-space-bases-narration-only Credits: Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 337; April 7, 2022 Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: Christopher Maurer https://www.redhousestudio.net David McFarlane Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Christopher Maurer https://www.redhousestudio.net Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Katie Byrne Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Linden Gledhill https://www.lindengledhill.com/ Sam McNamara Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod Udo Schroeter Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, Big Alien Theory,
0:05.0	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:23.1	In the future, we will need to create earth-like environments on hostile, barren worlds,
0:28.8	so we can grow food, plants, and animals of those outposts.
0:32.4	But what if we could also grow those outposts themselves?
0:39.6	So today we'll be looking at the notion of self-growing habitats, bases able to grow from
0:44.4	relatively small seeds into large habitats with little to no human assistance.
0:49.6	And we were examining this notion in the context of some current designs for a moon or Mars bases,
0:55.1	all up to the notion of a tiny probe, not much bigger than a normal plant seed, that might
0:59.8	be able to impact on asteroid or moon and turn into a giant colony waiting for humans
1:04.8	to move in, or perhaps even growing the humans there too.
1:09.1	But we should begin with the basic concept of why it is so appealing for space.
1:14.1	In simplest terms it's about two things.
1:17.1	First, not needing to carry much equipment and building material to a site for a base, sourcing
1:22.6	those in situ, and second, to minimize human effort once there, especially if the base needs
1:29.4	some time and effort to provide basic life support.
1:33.0	Now neither of those are new ideas.
1:35.7	Indeed as a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer species, the problem of having to carry your
1:39.9	home with you has been pestering humanity for as long as we've been around, and has quite a few
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