Hi there, I’d like to connect with people to discuss technical aspects of settlement of mars.

I’d look at a house on earth and ask: what things have to be supplied from the outside; what things can be produced inside the house? Houses on earth have piping for water, and cabling for electricity.

Plants can be grown in a green-house using these two ingredients, and the people can sleep in a spaceship.

Comment whatever comes to your mind.

  • @nikaaaOP
    1•30 days ago

    I don’t see perchlorates as a big problem.

    After all, plants grow quite well without soil, like hydroponics, I guess.

    • @NegativeInf
      2•30 days ago

      Where are you going to get all that water?

      • @nikaaaOP
        3•30 days ago

        I was thinking three options:

        • mining from underground (hoping that there’s enough ice underground/water in the mineralic crystals that can be thermically released)
        • water from the atmosphere (believe it or not but the atmosphere in the early morning is actually saturated with moisture - about 0.25 mbar iirc) so it could be extracted through something similar to a room de-moisturizer
        • polar caps (unrealistic in the early game)