These carbon fibre chairs are designed to be used on Mars

If Elon Musk wants to get a human crew to Mars by 2024, they’ll need chairs, right?

That’s the priority for Switzerland-based designer Thomas Missé, who has designed the “Mars Chair” with interplanetary colonisation in mind.

“Before industries get set up in this new home all products will have to be imported from earth,” says Missé on his website. “This will be a drastic change in the way we look at the production: transportation will represent most of the cost.”

Missé has designed the lightweight, carbon fibre chair with the optimisation of space and cost in mind — his team has estimated that furniture transportation to Mars would cost around 5000€ ($5899.75) per kilogram. Read more…

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