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Plus, to get an equivalent level of radiation shielding as earth's atmoshere you need 5 meters of soil above you. If you want to live in a self-sufficient cave
by Joeri 9y ago
Plus, to get an equivalent level of radiation shielding as earth's atmoshere you need 5 meters of soil above you. If you want to live in a self-sufficient cave complex, you might as well do that on earth.
I still think we should go, it's just that it seems getting there is the easy part, and even that is almost impossible.
- Joeri 9y agoAlthough thinking about that, it does explain why Elon is suddenly so interested in tunnel boring machines, and why the boring company's machine is designed to be small and easy to build in large numbers.
- m-j-fox 9y agoAnd then you have to hope for soil that is not itself radioactive. Lots of soil on earth contains radon, but I don't know about soil on mars.