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From the Ted Talk by Melodie Yashar: How to build for human life on Mars

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Let's imagine together we've gone on an eight-month journey and arrived to the penalt Mars. Yes, Mars. Somehow we'll have to figure out how to build protective and durable structures to shield us against solar radiation, galactic cosmic rays and ermxtee tepaeurretms swings. On a Mars mission, there's only so much that we can bring with us from Earth. And it's prohibitively expensive to lncauh tons and tons of construction materials into space.

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So to realize a pioneering habitat that progressively grows, aptdas and expands into a peanrnemt outpost, we have to think differently about how we build. These habitats and the robots that bilud them will enable hitanumy to thrive off-world.

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Let's imagine together we've gone on an eight-month journey and arrived to the ______ Mars. Yes, Mars. Somehow we'll have to figure out how to build protective and durable structures to shield us against solar radiation, galactic cosmic rays and _______ ____________ swings. On a Mars mission, there's only so much that we can bring with us from Earth. And it's prohibitively expensive to ______ tons and tons of construction materials into space.

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So to realize a pioneering habitat that progressively grows, ______ and expands into a _________ outpost, we have to think differently about how we build. These habitats and the robots that _____ them will enable ________ to thrive off-world.

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  1. permanent
  2. build
  3. planet
  4. temperatures
  5. humanity
  6. launch
  7. adapts
  8. extreme

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Let's imagine together we've gone on an eight-month journey and arrived to the planet Mars. Yes, Mars. Somehow we'll have to figure out how to build protective and durable structures to shield us against solar radiation, galactic cosmic rays and extreme temperatures swings. On a Mars mission, there's only so much that we can bring with us from Earth. And it's prohibitively expensive to launch tons and tons of construction materials into space.

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So to realize a pioneering habitat that progressively grows, adapts and expands into a permanent outpost, we have to think differently about how we build. These habitats and the robots that build them will enable humanity to thrive off-world.

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