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12174211 No.12174211 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best way to build permanent human settlements on mars? Living inside lava tubes and sealing them off? Or brick houses out of mars dirt?

>> No.12174336

Did The Martian gloss over the fact that Mark Warner would be getting his nuts boiled by all the surface radiation hitting him everyday?

>> No.12174339

>>12174211
3D
PRINTED
DOME
HABITATS

>> No.12174368

>>12174211
We'll know when we get there.

>> No.12174404

>>12174211
You only really need shielding from above unless you build tall, and even then only a few meters of regolith. Heavy sure but not impossibly so.
>Dig trench, put in prefab, put dirt from trench on top.
Lavatubes are unnecessary and too much work to make safe.

>> No.12174416

>>12174404
>Lavatubes are unnecessary and too much work to make safe.
What do you mean? Cave-ins due to human activity inside?

>> No.12174422

>>12174416
Just google pictures of them. There is a reason why volcanologists repeatedly say it is a bad idea.

>> No.12174428

>>12174339
YOU'RE
NOT
FUCKING
FUNNY

>> No.12174439

>>12174416
>>12174422 pretty much what he said
The entire way we find them is by looking for places they've collapsed so you can see them on SatInt.
They're also annoying as hell to get in and out of. If they open at the top you either have to
1) use a crane, which isn't the easiest thing and severely limits your payload and mobility, not to mention the failure issue - its a lot easier to climb out of a dug-out than a lavatube the size of a cavern.
2) dig your way down, at which point just dig a dug out and safe time and effort.
You also don't need THAT much shielding. You don't need to be under a mountain.