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#1 2004-06-06 13:46:54
- Dook
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Re: Moving Mars Habitat
One problem with a continuous landing of mars habitats is that you want to land them close to the other habitats already in place but you have to have some room for error.
A number of ideas have been proposed to move a mars habitat that lands miles away from the others. Walking legs and wheels are the most common but what about lifting the habitat with a balloon full of hydrogen and then attaching a cable from the pressurized rover and pulling the habitat with the rover?
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#2 2004-06-06 18:32:32
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Re: Moving Mars Habitat
Balloons on Mars bounce really well because of the low air density. Even on Earth it takes a house sized balloon to lift a
person. The atmospheric pressure on Mars is hard to design for.
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#3 2004-06-07 08:57:59
Re: Moving Mars Habitat
Why not send inmates to Mars to pull the habitats by physical human force to the right place, like mentioned http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2086]in these posts.? So instead of chaingangs we could have habitat-gangs.
No I'm just kidding 
However I did a google for your idea and the
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U … ch]results are not to promissing basically like MarsDog said. The pressure on Mars is like in the stratosphere of the Earth and the only things going there are weather balloons.
Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
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#4 2004-06-07 12:00:36
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Re: Moving Mars Habitat
That would answer the funding problem also. US has large prison population, so the prison budget could become part of the Mars budget.
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