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Perhaps if you're building a cellar. If you want to make a 10-story building - even in a virgin terrain, it's a complicated operation. Not to mention that you
by kolinko 10y ago
Perhaps if you're building a cellar. If you want to make a 10-story building - even in a virgin terrain, it's a complicated operation.
Not to mention that you need to make the materials such that they resist a huge side pressure, water leaks and so on.
Psychological costs are also costs.
- Retric 10y agoWater leaks are not going to be a problem on mars. Significantly lower gravity 3.711 m/s vs 9.8m/s also drastically lowers pressure from burrowing.
- ChefDenominator 10y agoWhy build layers at all? Urban concentrations too high?
- clock_tower 10y agoWide-open spaces, even enclosed ones, can reduce the psychological burden of confinement quite a bit -- there's a variety of Russian strategic-missile submarine with a swimming pool, for example. This subject also comes up frequently in SF (science fiction, not San Francisco, which has the opposite problem); there was some discussion of it on the "Atomic Rocket" worldbuilding guide, IIRC.
- lambdadmitry 10y agoI… I think the picture of that "pool" in your head is slightly wrong [1]. Tangential: the source [2] is pretty interesting. [1]: http://pics.livejournal.com/igor113/pic/001e551p http://pics.livejournal.com/igor113/pic/001e551p [2]: http://igor113.livejournal.com/27205.html http://igor113.livejournal.com/27205.html