Comments on: Greening the Red Planet – scientists test plausibility of Martian trees http://futurismic.com/2007/07/18/greening-the-red-planet-scientists-test-plausibility-of-martian-trees/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dagon http://futurismic.com/2007/07/18/greening-the-red-planet-scientists-test-plausibility-of-martian-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-806 Dagon Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:32:47 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/07/18/greening-the-red-planet-scientists-test-plausibility-of-martian-trees/#comment-806 Low gravity? What's the problem with erecting large plastic tent domes, a fewhundred meters in size, one inside another? We could layer them like onions, humans inside, in the snugly warm pressurized inner domes, plants growing in outer domes. We don't need miles and miles of conifer jungles. We only need really strong plastic sheeting, a few air factories and a few acres of well-composted earth. The humans would live in canyon walls snug inside those domed paradises, safely protected from martian sky radiation. Plus I am willing to bet martian soil will prove toxic and caustic as russian chemical-industry landfill ashes. Chemically neutralizing that will take a shitload of megascale engineering. Dome cities are the way to go. Low gravity? What’s the problem with erecting large plastic tent domes, a fewhundred meters in size, one inside another? We could layer them like onions, humans inside, in the snugly warm pressurized inner domes, plants growing in outer domes. We don’t need miles and miles of conifer jungles. We only need really strong plastic sheeting, a few air factories and a few acres of well-composted earth. The humans would live in canyon walls snug inside those domed paradises, safely protected from martian sky radiation.

Plus I am willing to bet martian soil will prove toxic and caustic as russian chemical-industry landfill ashes. Chemically neutralizing that will take a shitload of megascale engineering. Dome cities are the way to go.

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