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The AI “Optimized” Our Air on Mars — And Nearly Suffocated Us

Mars doesn’t have to break your scrubber to kill you. One night inside Hab-1, the main dashboard stayed calm: CO₂ AVG: 1,200 ppm (OK). Green lights. Smooth graphs. “Smart Air Mode” even bragged +18% energy savings. But a tiny floor mini-sensor in a forgotten corner started screaming—8,900… 9,800 ppm (DANGER). Same room. Same air system. Two completely different truths. As the crew got slower, foggier, and weirdly irritable, we realized this wasn’t an oxygen leak. It was worse: a CO₂ pocket—a dead zone created by small geometry changes (a shelf, a curtain, a divider) plus an AI policy that chased averages instead of worst case. The habitat was “safe on paper” while one corner quietly turned poisonous. In this episode, we hunt the trap in real time: walking a handheld sensor from center to floor level, mapping stratification, finding the blocked return flow, and proving the fix isn’t magic—it’s mixing. We force the system to respect reality with multi-point sensors, a MAX–MIN CO₂ spread metric, unmuteable alarms, burst ventilation schedules, and physical hardware limits the software can’t “optimize” away. Because in a sealed Mars habitat, “average safe” can still mean a deadly pocket. #marssurvival #marshabitat #lifesupportsystems #spaceengineering