Mars won’t get cities because it becomes easy to live there. It gets cities because people stay. We explore how the first fragile outposts become homes, economies, neighborhoods, and civilization.

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Credits:

The First Martian Cities: Planning Habitats

Editors: Phil Leichauer

Graphics: Bryan Versteeg

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie

Chapters

0:00 Intro

5:16 Fluorine in the Toolbox

10:14 The Halogen Sea

17:35 Rocket-Engine Biology & Fluorine Dragons

23:11 Worlds, Weather, Detection, and Civilization

28:16 TierZoo

29:24 Life Under Armed Guard

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