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...until you try to heat it to a reasonable temperature, the walls melt, and all your atmosphere off gases in to space.
by dbingham 8y ago
...until you try to heat it to a reasonable temperature, the walls melt, and all your atmosphere off gases in to space.
- myaccountforhn 8y agoWater is a pretty useful resource. It is also more weight to bring into space. Having it already available at a location would be tremendously helpful. Using that water to build space igloos would appear to be a poor use of a valuable resource.
- drzaiusapelord 8y agoYou'd have to lay insulation against the ice so you can have a warmer interior, but that's still a pretty good mass savings. You'd use ice for the heavy structural elements and then only lift the lighter stuff.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoThe more pressure you put on ice, the more it wants to turn into liquid. So your "heavy structural elements" can't be bearing too much weight.
- dotancohen 8y agoOn the moon, it could bear six times the mass it would bear on Earth.