A Mars Habitat Sport
Speculative
(By Alicia Lee, Austing Wang & Sheetal Agrawal)
By the 2070s, as the first permanent Martian habitats took shape, the colonists faced an unexpected challenge: the psychological toll of isolation and monotony in their sterile, pressurized domes. Earth’s traditional sports faltered in the weak gravity until a modified dodgeball could soar in mesmerizing arcs, bouncing unpredictably off the low-friction polymer walls of the atrium. What began as a pastime soon evolved into Gravity Ball, a fast-paced, low-gravity sport blending dodge ball’s reflexes, and the chaotic physics of Martian conditions.