@Squigglydodah
Space habs art is so beautiful it's the wallpaper on my computer. Has been for years
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I love the idea of Martian Cities, but I do feel like Luna is going to be our first target for large scale permanent habitation before we see Mars. Just given the close location and usefulness of a lunar colony.
@Zeppflyer
Watching this after watching the first commercial spacewalk this morning was pretty cool.
@HibbsInJohto
I can't wait to teach Botany and Horticulture at Hellas Planitia University
@planetdisco4821
So I met Kim Stanley Robinson at a book signing for Blue Mars and frankly, he’s a pretty tightly wound spring lol. But after re-reading my signed copies of the Mars Trilogy I have to say it’s stood the test of time amazingly well because of the amazing amount of research he did before he even started writing. It’s probably the best “future history” hard science fiction trilogy ever written IMO. He’s actually a mountaineer in his spare time (as I once was back in the day) and wrote a short story in “The Martians” about a group of climbers that summit Olympus Mons that I thought was great. To put that mountain to scale, the actual cliff around the edge of the shield volcano is taller than Everest itself! The rest of it’s just a long uphill walk so kind of the opposite of the Himalayas lol. I’d also like to mention that the nicest author I ever met was the now sadly departed Greg Bear who was a titan in the genre and just a genuinely pleasant guy who took the time to spend an hour in conversation with me, a filthy dirty, grease smeared 18 year old apprentice boilermaker who’d skipped out of work early with a shopping bag full of his novels to get them signed by him at the bookshop at the local mall and it turned out, I was the only one there! RIP Mr Bear, the foreman docked my pay when I tried sneaking back into the factory but your signed editions still take pride of place in my collection…
@stoweby
I wish they would have promoted John Carter. I really enjoyed that movie. Sad that it flopped so badly.
@VisualFrequency13
I LOVE Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy!!!! A true masterpiece.
@albizu75
Cities of Mars, as in the band? Seriously though I would love to jump 200 years into the future and visit Bradbury City, Underhill, Port Lowell, Utopia Planitia, Londres Nova, Vishniac or Chryse. Look forward to the video!
@Lngbrdninjamasta
I watched the space X civilian space walk this morning 🎉 We r one step closer. ❤🎉 🌟
@angelmontgomery6168
The oldest city founded by Europeans in the Americas was Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola in 1496, 4 years after Columbus. St. Augustine is the oldest in the United States.
@Komiroya
St Augustine represent.
@timezone5259
The thumbnail for this episode looks really good The archology gives a lot of Gallifrey vibes
@Uf7f7d6cufihud6dgco
Your thumbnail pictures are particularly wonderful this year.
@BurtonShotton
The first cities constructed need to be two cities close together, named Greater and Lesser Helium. We can then move on to Hastor, Ptarth, and Gathol. No Zodonga though.
@elliotsmith9812
A nuclear power plant on Earth typically has huge cooling towers because all the power generated has to be rejected as heat. On mars a cooling tower, which is a really efficient way to do the job, would have to be 1000x bigger and consume insane amounts of water. Heat reduction will be the largest part of any city on Mars, but it never shows up in the illustrations.
@niveketihw1897
Not a word about the Swedish atmospheric doom band of the same name? Awesome episode as usual!
@missZoey5387
I had this idea for a story where the human settlers of Mars live in various city-states that each have satellite towns, villages, and industries. Each one sends representatives to a kind of national assembly. In the narrative, Mars is in the middle of a war of independence where some city-states are loyal to the UN on Earth, some are pro-independence, and some are neutral in the conflict.
@alexanderreintzsch5315
Total Recall!!! That is what was a great Mars movie! With Arni that is!
@The_Natalist
The only way I can think of this being possible is to make the settlement self-sustaining as soon as possible. You don't want shipments from Earth suddenly cutting off from funding issues and killing everyone there
@dariustiapula