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#101 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-03-19 15:21:00
Yeah, what an unpatriotic racist. He should go back to Africa.
Dosent that contradict your argument, or may other arguments here, after all its not fight fire with fire situation, you cant fight prejudice with some.
#102 Re: Human missions » Russian on mars » 2008-03-19 11:25:59
Yes, im my opinion its more likely for the ESA to land on mars than the russians, unless a deal between a company or organisation and hires the current russian infrastructure to send some craft into orbit for that purpose.
#103 Re: Water on Mars » When? » 2008-03-18 17:29:14
round 4 billion years ago i think when the earths atmosphere was still forming and life was begining.
#104 Re: Human missions » Crater colony » 2008-03-18 17:27:26
Thank you all for the welcome.
The crater colony would be in asteroids no more than a km across or so, i guess the idea was to obvious to come only come to me hehe, but my thinking was that pre-fabricated colony kits could be sold to groups on earth (eg: religious groups, small ethnic groups and stuff) so they only had to find a crater and settle, i dunno it may be a way to make colonisation profitable.
i will post some pics of the model, right now im doing tunnels within the crater walls, i got another more completed design of a subterranian colony nealy 300 meters deep (originally started as "the hive" base from sid meiers alpha centaury) the file is quite large though.
#105 Re: Human missions » Crater colony » 2008-03-18 09:25:52
Oh and ive been making some sketchup models of the colony if you are interested in seein it.
#106 Re: Human missions » Crater colony » 2008-03-18 09:02:07
Hi my name its felipe, im new to the forum although ive checked it out a few times before, i dont know if i should have introduced my self somewhere else in the forum before o if this is the right place for this topic.
But anyway, for a long while ive been interested in martian and other space colonisation.
Recently ive been working on a design that involves covering the top of a small crater on mars with a polymer layer embeded with a electrostatic shield, thereby creting an area inside the crater that could be filled with an earthlike atmosphere and biosphere.
The settlement itself would dug into the crater wall on both sides, the settlement structures on the outher side of the crater would be connected by a network of tunnels with the inside settlement and the structures inside the crater, the the crater it self would be used for agricultural purpuses.
Im not sure on the integrity of a smal craters wall structure but i would imagine that they may be composed from a compacted loose assosiation of rock brought up by the impact, if so digging into it would be easier than if it where solid rock, and any solid rock bed would be used latter for more colonisation.
I would like to know your opinion and to become a part of the forum if you would permit me 
felipe.