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What do you think about using Martian soil to build some of our first large structures on Mars?
I'm using for reference Chapter 7 of Bob Zubrin's The Case For Mars, if anyone wanted to know what I was talking about...
Any comments or ideas?
"Some have met another fate. Let's put it this way... they no longer pose a threat to the US or its allies and friends." -- President Bush, State of the Union Address
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I like the idea of terrestrial and martian plastics and kevlar better than soil...if i remember right, zubrin wanted to use soil as bricks, or radiation shielding. bricks would be okay, but i still like plastics better, more flexible, mobile, less time to deploy, and cheaper.
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I think that whenever possible (and not for reasons of cheapness, either) any prospective colony should use Martian materials as often as possible. It would be a good symbol, if nothing else, to use the Martian regolith for bricks.
At least the bricks could be used to clad the buildings, and increase the radiation shielding.
NOTE: The Red in me actually hates this idea. But, *sigh*, the Red viewpoint will never win out, and so I might as well capitulate to a certain degree. (At least on this.) ???
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