{"id":24433,"date":"2016-04-08T07:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/meet-behrokh-khoshnevis-the-man-designing-robots-to-build-colonies-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:32:24","slug":"meet-behrokh-khoshnevis-the-man-designing-robots-to-build-colonies-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/meet-behrokh-khoshnevis-the-man-designing-robots-to-build-colonies-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Meet Behrokh Khoshnevis, the Man Designing Robots to Build Colonies on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FpkX6GIbkY1M%3Ffeature%3Doembed&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpkX6GIbkY1M&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FpkX6GIbkY1M%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=a0e34f678e9a44f4b746684241ddaf3f&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Khoshnevis imagines the future of colonies on Mars, he imagines very tall buildings, with a lot of protection from the elements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGravity is one third of Earth\u2019s, and therefore with less construction material we can build stronger structures out there, therefore we can build much taller,\u201d he says. \u201cThe cost of energy for elevators and all that will be much less. Theoretically everything could be three times as high as here with the same consumption of energy,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>A human utopia on Mars will soon be technologically feasible, but it will take some political will to get there, he says. It will take sustained resources and effort over decades to get the ball rolling, and keep it moving forward. \u201cThere really has to be philosophical support for this \u2014 that this is the future of humanity, Mars is the closest thing to a livable planet, so we should not miss the opportunity \u2014 we should dedicate a good effort in making sure that we go there and we change the conditions of Mars to make it habitable, because one planet is not enough for this amazing species.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/13957-meet-behrokh-khoshnevis-the-man-designing-robots-to-build-colonies-on-mars?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse&utm_campaign=organic\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/13957-meet-behrokh-khoshnevi...gn=organic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Khoshnevis imagines the future of colonies on Mars, he imagines very tall buildings, with a lot of protection from the elements. \u201cGravity is one third of Earth\u2019s, and therefore with less construction material we can build stronger structures out there, therefore we can build much taller,\u201d he says. \u201cThe cost of energy for elevators [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62112,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions\/62112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}