Comments on: What If We Could Build a Mars Base… Using Mars Itself? https://thechinaacademy.org/what-if-we-could-build-a-mars-base-using-mars-itself/ an intellectual content network dedicated to illustrating how key dynamics shape China's view on the world Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:57:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Tom Mallard https://thechinaacademy.org/what-if-we-could-build-a-mars-base-using-mars-itself/#comment-5777 Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:57:33 +0000 https://thechinaacademy.org/what-if-we-could-build-a-mars-base-using-mars-itself/#comment-5777 Joined the Academy, to add using antennas for most structure between or one-side can stru ture preforms my guess strong as concrete_n_steel having tension bt melt + it’s a tiny space-frame structurally, here in USA it doesn’t ring a bell.

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By: Anonymous https://thechinaacademy.org/what-if-we-could-build-a-mars-base-using-mars-itself/#comment-5771 Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:50:46 +0000 https://thechinaacademy.org/what-if-we-could-build-a-mars-base-using-mars-itself/#comment-5771 As an architect following ISRU and a member of a lunar mission, non-govt, found NASA baked lunar dirt in a microwave oven into a brick, it melts btw grains not a lava. Took it from there works on any dirt, did a landing pad 10m deep × 200m with two tiny 6-leg took 1500hrs. For handling micrometeorites 40cm of lunar soil on the roof, shades gamma handy. For more @tmallard on 𝕏

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