For Episode 8, Here’s How I Think This Works goes to Mars (in our minds), and attempts to overcome a lack of oxygen, an abundance of cosmic radiation, and the usual amount of stupidity in order to colonize the Red Planet. We theorize about the prospects for growing food on Mars, ponder the roles of robots, and somehow end up talking about murder again. NASA’s own Rick Davis comes to the rescue at the half way point, offering a refreshingly sane, insightful, and inspiring take on mankind’s manifest destiny to migrate to Mars.