Imagine Mars
Portrait of Lacey Presley.

@LaceyPresley

Lacey Presley

First principles: Imagine Mars. Build it.

Researcher and futurist working the first-principles path to a multiplanetary civilization. Extending The Light. TeraFab. SpaceX. SpaceXAI. Tesla.

Follow on XImagine Mars podcastPublic forge

How this desk works

A public Mars archive. Music in the other room.

  1. 01

    Mars is the front door

    This site is the public record of the research: why consciousness must leave one planet, the papers, native films, MarsForge briefings, and the TeraFab files. People who arrive from a Starship post should land on the build — not a track.

  2. 02

    The live conversation is on X

    MarsForge is the community desk. Posts go out on @LaceyPresley. This archive keeps the long form readable without a private login.

  3. 03

    Films and papers travel together

    Each research film plays in the video archive with chapters, a transcript, and the written paper that belongs with it.

  4. 04

    Imagine Mars is also a podcast

    The spoken desk is the same work out loud — Starship, orbital compute, ice, the stack that has to close. Episodes live on the podcast page.

  5. 05

    Music is a room inside this site

    STATIC and the rest of the catalog are here, one dropdown away. They are not the headline. Check out my music from the footer when you want that frequency.

TeraFab filesMarsForge on XCheck out my music

Press and collabs

Write to the desk

Independent desk. For press, interviews, and collaborations, write on X — start with Press. Instagram is the other public line.

No separate press inbox is published. X is the public address.