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#1 2002-12-24 17:18:50

CalTech2010
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From: United States, Colorado
Registered: 2002-11-23
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Re: soil as a building material on Mars? - Zubrin's brick building ideas

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?


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#2 2002-12-24 18:34:30

soph
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Registered: 2002-11-24
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Re: soil as a building material on Mars? - Zubrin's brick building ideas

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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#3 2002-12-26 16:02:37

Auqakah
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Registered: 2002-07-13
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Re: soil as a building material on Mars? - Zubrin's brick building ideas

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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