Ideas change everything

The living tech we need to support human life on other planets

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Lynn Rothschild |

TEDxBeaconStreetSalon

• October 2018

What would it take to settle Mars? In a talk about the future of space exploration, Lynn Rothschild reviews the immense challenges to living elsewhere in the universe and proposes some bold, creative solutions to making a home off planet Earth -- like "growing" houses out of fungi or using bacteria to help generate electricity.

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What would it take to settle Mars? In a talk about the future of space exploration, Lynn Rothschild reviews the immense challenges to living elsewhere in the universe and proposes some bold, creative solutions to making a home off planet Earth -- like "growing" houses out of fungi or using bacteria to help generate electricity.

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About the speaker

Lynn Rothschild

Astrobiologist, synthetic biologist

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Lynn Rothschild is passionate about the origin and evolution of life on earth or elsewhere -- while at the same time pioneering the use of synthetic biology to enable space exploration.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxBeaconStreetSalon, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TEDx.

Follow NASA on Twitter to keep exploring the universe.