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Mars Independence Timing 2/8: Window 1 (2031-32)

Mars Independence Timing 2/8: Window 1 (2031-32): 27 000 Optimus Androids Land Before the First Human 1. Robots Lead the Way - The entire first Mars transfer wi...

Mars Independence Timing 1/8: The Three-Window Fleet

Mars Independence Timing 1/8: The Three-Window Fleet That Changes Everything Now we shift to timing. Because Mars doesn't let us launch whenever we feel like it...

Mars Independence 12/12: The Call to Independence

Mars Independence 12/12: The Call to Independence – A Million-Android March Begins 1. We’ve crunched every number Over the past 11 chapters we’ve shown that a s...

Mars Independence 11/12: Risks & Black Swans

Mars Independence 11/12: Risks & Black Swans – What Could Actually Stop Us? 1: The Big One Everyone Forgets - Mars isn’t trying to kill you every second – Earth...

Age of the Androids

[](https://3speak.tv/watch?v=kiwithinker/evvcfgjw) ▶️ Watch on 3Speak --- Happy New Year, New Zealand and beyond! 🌅🚀 As the clock strikes midnight and we step...

Spacefarer Update - End of 2025

🚀 Spacefarer Update 🚀 Human Spaceflight in 2025: A Year of Milestones, Private Innovation, and Resilience As 2025 draws to a close on December 31, it's time t...

Mars Independence 10/12: Economy & Industry on Mars

Mars Independence 10/12: Economy & Industry on Mars How a City of 10 000 People Becomes the Saudi Arabia of Space 1: The Real Currency Isn’t Money – It’s Kilogr...

Mars Independence 9/12: Governance & Law Beyond Earth

Mars Independence 9/12: Governance & Law Beyond Earth 1- The Day Earth’s Laws Stop Working Imagine the first 47 humans on Mars quietly vote to ignore a new U.S....

Mars Independence 8/12: Closed-Loop Life Support & Food Independence

Mars Independence 8/12: Closed-Loop Life Support & Food Independence 1. The Real Goal Isn’t Just Surviving – It’s Never Needing Another Care Package ISS today r...

Mars Independence 7/12: Energy Roadmap

Mars Independence 7/12: Energy Roadmap Solar Start - Kilopower Bridge - Fission Forever - Fusion Future Elon’s current plan is simple: flood Mars with solar pan...

Mars Independence 6/12: Resource Revolution

Mars Independence 6/12: Resource Revolution – 90 % Less Mass to Mars with Robot Swarms Imagine landing the raw materials for an entire city on Mars. Steel, glas...

Mars Independence 5/12: Android Architects

Mars Independence 5/12: Android Architects One Optimus = 5–7 Humans in Heavy Industry Let’s be honest – sending humans to do hard physical labour on Mars sounds...

Mars Independence 4/12: Social Cohesion

Mars Independence 4/12: Social Cohesion The “Keep Me Happy” Threshold 1. The Social Spark: Why Mars Needs More Than Just Numbers Picture this: 100 genetically f...

Mars Independence 3/12: Pioneering Losses

Mars Independence 3/12: Pioneering Losses How Many Extra Humans Do We Actually Need? History is brutal: - Jamestown’s “Starving Time” claimed over 75 % of colon...

Mars Independence 2/12: Genetic Diversity

Mars Independence 2/12: Genetic Diversity The Real Minimum Viable Population Math Everyone has heard the old numbers thrown around: “160 minimum” … “500 to be s...

Mars Independence 1/12: The Myth of the Million

Mars Independence 1/12: The Myth of the Million Why Elon’s Own 1 000 000-Person Mars Target Is Already Obsolete Elon Musk has repeatedly stated that a Mars colo...

How Much Rocket Payload Is Needed?

Ponder these two numbers: 109,500 and 572,600. That’s tonnes of payload to orbit in a single year once Starship V3/Block 3 is mature and SpaceX is finishing thr...

AI instead of University?

Not sure where you live, but in NZ we’ve got heaps of solid AI University courses - e.g. Waikato’s Master of Artificial Intelligence (postgrad, 1.5 yrs). Here’s...

The Little Green Alien Land a Rocket

[](https://3speak.tv/watch?v=kiwithinker/bfawvplo) ▶️ Watch on 3Speak --- Maybe the Little Green Alien is the reason the camera froze for a few seconds before t...

Space Shuttle and Starship as Space Stations?

I've been thinking about space... and the Space Shuttle... and the ISS... and Starship. The ISS took more than 40 launches to build over 13 years (even thought ...