Moon and Mars Permanent Buildings and Villages: Considerations, Designs, and How People Will Live

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Moon and Mars Permanent Buildings and
VillagesConsiderations, Designs, and How People
Will Live

• Andrew E. Boeck
• 2-14-06

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Difficulties

• Radiation
• Airless
• Water
• Food
• Cold

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Radiation

• Cosmic, isotropic entire sky, low intensity but
  deadly
• Sun less deadly, but flares more intense
• Must several ft of sand for shielding
• Makes agriculture difficult

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Air Pressure

• Bulges out, deflection often governs
• Trapped indoors, airless or thin atmosphere
  outside

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Water, Food, Cold

• Bring or find water, for humans, also for fuel
• Bring initial food, but own agriculture after
• Heat interior building, but thin atmosphere
  reduces heat loss

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Effort, Part 1

• Launchers small lift, thus many launches
• Thus send equipment, to make materials, so not
  have to send materials
• Equipment defines personnel initially sent

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Effort, Part 2

• Buildings similar to Earth, but pieces thicker
  and closer together
• Construction comparable to Earth prefab, but uses
  fewer personnel
• Sand cover, for radiation shielding, several
  times effort for soil grading
• As under sand, most buildings hidden. Only parks
  and ceremonial buildings briefly visited will be
  openly visible

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Effort, Part 3

• Not robotic construction and materials making
  machines, take longer to design and program than
  to build villages. Humans have fewer breakdowns
• Not alter DNA, for humans, plants, or animals to
  live more easily elsewhere
• Nor miracle materials, eg, very high stiffness or
  radiation protection

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Problem Not Material

• Getting enough people into outer space to fill a
  village, and to maintain a high birthrate
• Without this, not a civilization, only a small
  research station

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Political Or Not

• Willingness to pay
• 17 Saturns for equipment and initial persons,
  with more to resupply and increase population,
  for each village

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Big Point

• National effort, or dont bother.

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And that will be THE END