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Landing on ice, with a rocket firing down. You sure?
by zeusk 8y ago
Landing on ice, with a rocket firing down.
You sure?
- iqihs 8y agoThey don't land on ground, it's a landing pad .
- zeusk 8y agoHow big of a pad will you have to build in Antarctica to deflect heat from any ice that might be structurally supporting the base?
- ben_w 8y agoWould that matter? When it melts, it turns to water. There are already landing pads that float on water. This doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter, but my engineering skills are purely software — I really am asking if it would matter because I don’t know.
- ben_w 8y agoQuestion (I don’t know if the answer is known to anyone, nor where to look online): does Mars have significant CO2 permafrost that can be disturbed by landing a rocket on it?
- zeusk 8y ago> This, combined with all the tech needed for a Mars colony, would make it trivial to build a permanent settlement in Antarctica. > A domed, self-sufficient, city in Antarctica would also be a cheap way to test most (not all) of the tech needed for Martian self-sufficiency GP is talking about testing the rockets in Antarctica.
- ben_w 8y agoI am GP. I’m talking about testing colony tech somewhere where failure isn’t fatal. Rockets are only part of that, but it’s not really testing by the time you have the rocket capacity to make a colony in Antarctica.