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The interior of module 2, starfish house.

Footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2H06CvBQU

Here's the interior. Naturally, they brought a woman. Starfish House had a five star chef on board, hot showers, all the modern amenities.

The Conshelf 3 colony was funded by the French oil industry. The promise was that men would be able to live and work on deep sea oil rigs that would make it safer to do deep sea drilling without the danger of BP oil spill type accidents (Since you'd have humans on-site to manually take care of it.)

Cousteau had a change of heart when he saw the effects of what was just starting to be understood as climate change on the oceanic ecosystem. He swore off human colonization of the seas in favor of environmental conservation.

>>3034419

>>If we have hundreds of people in one concentrated area which will likely happen eventually this is gonna be a really serious problem.

It won't. The toilets can vent waste a few hundred feet from the colony and it will be eaten up within minutes. It's gross, but a fact of life in the sea; No nutrition is wasted. That's how early aquanauts in the 70s disposed of waste. Sometimes it'd be gone before they could finish dropping a deuce and they'd get bit on the asshole by tiny fish trying to get more.

Pic related. These gentleman have all known what it is to have tiny fish try to eat shit directly out of their buttholes. Such is life for the undersea pioneer.

>>2176139

>> there'd just be no incentive to do it.

Science. The methods I mentioned would make it much cheaper to build a much larger base on Mars than we could using the traditional interlocking capsules approach.

If we're going to build a science outpost on Mars anyway, it only makes sense to get more bang for our buck. A colony consisting mostly of sealed lava tubes and concrete domes offers many times the livable space per dollar compared to existing, capsule-centric plans.

Also, lol at how this started out as a deep sea science thread and somehow became a space thread.

>>2046587

>>The only annoying thing is the power situation. A tethered generator on the surface that could break or sink isn't terribly convenient.

Actually, it'd have to be designed so you could sink it. Otherwise it would be carried off/destroyed by the first hurricane to pass overhead.

One possibility is to have a solar panel each module can raise to the surface on a retracting zipline (with power cord umbilical) that would retract as storms approach. But the "hub" to which the modules connect would need a support buoy with an air compressor, so that the external air tanks could be constantly topped off. That way in the event of a storm, there's plenty of air in reserve to ride it out.

The best solution, but probably very controversial, is a nuclear reactor. The same sort that Navy subs use. It's powerful enough to hydrolize air from seawater, and the other product is hydrogen fuel for submarines powered by fuel cells. It's ideal, except for the political hurdles involved in building a civilian nuclear reactor underwater.

>>2030061

Either way. I'm open to floating platforms too. but until there's an efficient way to get air from sea water, it'll be cheaper to live above water than below it.

Once we have that technology however, it'll use less materials to simply build underwater than to construct stationary seasteads or even floating platforms capable of holding up cities. The economics of undersea living only start to make sense when you have a pressing need to create more livable space (i.e. massive inland flooding) and you have a way to eliminate or greatly reduce the energy cost of keeping the air fresh.

Pic: Cousetau chilling with his bitch and some bros in Conshelf 2, back in the 60s.

Jacque Cousteau maxin' and relaxin'.

The largest so far was the Conshelf III station, designed by Jacque Cousteau. Along with Starfish House it had more interior space than a moderately sized house and had a separate garage for the minisub.