Would you like a 3D printer? Of course you would. Would you like to collaborate with Nasa? Please, we won’t insult you while waiting for an answer. MakerBot has launched a competition tailored for you then, in collaboration with Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory: MakerBot Mars Base Challenge. It wants you to deliver inspiration for a human base on Mars, considering future visitors will have to combat extreme temperatures, radiation spikes, dust storms and the whole you-can’t-breath-on-Mars thing. The brief provided is to design, with all these considerations in mind, “a utilitarian Mars base that can withstand the elements and maybe even make you feel at home, despite being 140 million miles away from Earth, on average”. And if you win, they’ll give you a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer.