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What do you think would be most effective for the⛺ settlement of a partial society on Mars 🌔? Individual dwellings or “domes” or a citadel covered by a dome 🏜️?
I would like to know your opinion 🙂
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Individual dwellings like MARSHA mean that you have to get in a space suit or special pressurized vehicle just to leave the “house”. That would lead to a lack of community cohesion, feelings of isolation & confinement, and depression. We are all familiar with that this year–COVID19 has produced a wealth of valuable data on people coping with…Read More
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very true every ton of materials to build withtakes away from other things that we need on Mars. One way to save on some things its to make as much as we can from Mars its self. Power is limited if going with just a solar battery system and getting others to want to sent a nuclear reactor even in the 10W size means we would want more than 1 per…Read More
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Octavio Lizana Soffline
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Excellent point, been thinking a lot about this.
TL:DR currently I’m in favour of smaller domes short term, one big dome long term.
My thinking is currently as follows: the stress on a habitat wall increases as the cross sectional area of the dome (hence with square of radius) and the thickness must increase linearly to counter it. Since the…Read More