Chris was in town and at the last minute, we called together a Decipher SciFi meetup in NYC. Thanks for coming out, folks!

Long and short term threats to humanity. Anthropocene.  Courage and adventure and inspiration.

Frank Borman and space vomit and space diarrhea. Pre-flight and post-flight quarantine protocols.

Rocket to orbit, dock with the larger ship/station, then on to Mars. Not entirely dissimilar to irl concepts. Finding energy on other bodies in space with lesser gravity wells. Public and private space industry partnership.

Around nine months to mars (maybe). Ion drives? Mundane solid rocket? Apparent weightlessness?

Remote Agent architecture. Robots prefabricating a Mars base before the humans arrive.

Weightlessness as an environmental “stressor.” Insemination in space. Fetal and childhood physical development.

Light speed communication speed limitations. Using AI to simulate realtime conversation. Translucent screens! ? A terrible design for the user, but a good design for storytelling in film. Also of some utility to teachers, who can then see what students are looking at. Parallax.

What would a native-born Martian human experience coming to Earth? Higher gravity. Heart enlargement. Blood pressure. Thin bones, low muscle mass.