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How would /sci/ build an Marsbase?

>> No.9798844

>>9798529
>How would /sci/ build an Marsbase?
>ma(rtian)deuce pic
As in for combat? Uhh underground I guess. Strong walls, less likely to rapidly decompress, force them into bottlenecks. Lots of emergency sealing doors, maybe doubled up to act as airlocks if one side decompresses. Central control of the air system to gas invaders or at least force them into space suits. Lots of artillery to replace the loss of aircraft.
Or if you meant in general, then it really depends on what the base is for and the technology you have available.

>> No.9799066

unironicly like how the eskimo's build their houses.
Making thick bricks on mars with local resources, build domes, tunnels,etc..
Put adhesive inbetween the bricks and airlocks,etc...
Use heavy machinery to cover everything up with mars dirt for extra protection from shit.
Presurize the inside and start putting up lights, heating, plumbing, and all that other stuff.
Now you have very sturdy marsbase that can withstand radiation and small meteorites.
Ofcourse the first marsbase will be capsules brought from earth, but these first missions will be necesary to do research on the right soil to make the bricks.

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9800554

>>9798529
First gen literally just landed tier: semi rigid inflatable tents. You can cut a lot of structural corners when the atmosphere inside the building helps hold it up. This means its lighter and cheaper to get it to Mars, and being foldable means its a lot more volume efficient during transport. You still want a traditional airlock but given you have limited resources and part replacements using suitports for most EVAs are a good idea.
The outer material needs to be durable, tear and impact resistant. Don't want a minor accident with a rover to kill everyone on the mission. Pure O2 is most dangerous during launch, and given it'll never be assembled at Earth pressure it'll still be relatively safe. This lets you cut prebreathing for EVAs and simplifies your logistics train both in general and if you want to us ISRU.
>pic on theme but otherwise unrelated

>> No.9800653

>>9799066
this.

Seeing as weight reduction is paramount in any offworld base, a mars base will likely be composed of handmade soil and rock structures, built thickly, and in such a way as to be pressurized. Each member of the mission would probably build their own quarters themselves, and move between it and the scientific apparatus sent down with them on any given day, as opposed to the idea of housing everything they have inside some plastic dome or pod.

Supplies sent down would likely be some kind of gel to line the inside of structures, which can also detect points of slow depressurization from within the structure, perhaps turning colors when in contact with the Mars atmosphere. probably essential resources would be a huge mass of thin but strong collapsible containers to store water/oxygen/food/chemicals harvested from Mars materials. theres a lot more to think about that im not qualified to guess at

>> No.9800671

>>9798529
Humans living on non-terraformed planets is too dumb to ever happen, you would be a million times safer just living in an orbiting space station letting robots go down for supplies and shit.

>> No.9800826

>>9800671
How? How would you be safer? Twice the radiation, worse temperature extremes, more shit to fail between you and your resources on the planet etc.