NASA’s Challenge to 3D Print Future Habitats on Mars
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- NASA invited engineers and architects from around the world to design future habitats for Mars. Here’s what they came up with.
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NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is a 4-year long competition centered around engineering habitats for deep space exploration, in this case Mars.
Mars has captivated our imagination for hundreds of years. The planet’s proximity and striking resemblance to Earth, and its potential to harbor life, has made Mars the target of many robotic missions.
But the surface of Mars is not as Earth-like as it might seem. With temperatures drastically changing each day, an inability to retain heat, and Mars’ total lack of a magnetosphere-there is almost no protection against dangerous solar radiation or cosmic radiation. This means we have to be able to build a futuristic habitat on Mars that can protect us from the extreme environment.
Enter: The brightest space architects and engineers from across the globe competing to prove they have what it takes to build a Martian home for humanity.
Two teams went head to head to print their designs and work out various complications, like what materials would work best on Mars (hint: thermoplastics), to prove they have what it takes to build humanity’s future home on Mars.
To learn more about the competition and what a future habitat might look like on Mars, check out this episode of Focal Point.
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Would you want to live in a 3D printed home? 🤔
I would love to! I think that would be super insane and amazing!
@Rock Stone if that's your application, you're probably last in line
Looks horrible.
Not one that small.
I am a homeless veteran who served in the US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES now retired in San Antonio Texas and yes I would if given the opportunity. benjamin.eugene.gee@gmail.com my wife and I are separated but she has a phone 210.818.6295 Sherene Gee please help I would gladly live in this home
Absolutely fantastic, 3D printable structures are so fascinating. Congrats to AI SpaceFactory!
I would like to live on Mars near the end of my life.
3D printed structures are the way ahead...I'm also excited about the 3D printing experiments that are happening on the ISS...We live in exciting times.
It's a fantastic Tomb🤣🤣🤣
@@anthonythomas1735 Yes we are. I want AI SpaceFactory could print a horizontal Mars Habitat for 10 people and a few who can't walk flights of stairs. It's gotta be able to be large enough to long stays inside only with plenty of outside visibility so you don't go NUTS staying inside. At least 10 feet tall floor to ceilings, 10,000 sq.ft of living space and 8,000 sq.ft. Food production, 5,000 sq.ft. food storage, 5,000 sq.ft. storage space, 5,000 sq.ft. vehicle storage and repair shop(s) with all the necessary tools and parts. 2,500 sq.ft. medical facilty, 1,000 waste facility management,. Did I forget anything? Communications facilities.
@@robertlee8805 , people that can't walk flights of stairs?
That would suit me down to the ground being disabled and all, I would have to upgrade my mobility scooter to handle the Martian terrain...
Build them on earth please.
I would love to live in one on earth !
Gerald Yap I think they said they wanted the homes built above ground the help with the crew’s mental health
Yes they are going to build it on earth.These houses will be known as Terra
@@Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. The thing itself will shield radiation asteroids dont hit everywhere like you may think and its designed to help with mental health too.
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Well , constructing complex buildings with 2-foot thick walls on Mars is still an extremely tall order ! .🤓
@@Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. that cave idea is actually not bad. But I think these egg like structures here can be a temporary solution while the caves are being prepared. Or we would have to build far more sophisticated robots that would construct everything without human supervision.
I want to know how "using the resources we have on Mars in situ" to "we printed with thermoplastics" are actually related?
Thermoplastic is a *very* broad term. I'm sure the bulk of the material and rigidity is made from Mars sand but they might have to bring some additives. Some could argue that glass can be used as a thermoplastic (after all, in normal 3D printing terms, the plastic solidifying is called "glassing"), and glass is made of sand.
@@Toastmaster_5000 , ESA are working in a 3D printing builder that uses concentrated sunlight to sinter lunar regolith.
Sintering doesn't go as far as melting, but it does soften the rock grains enough to fuse together.
@@massimookissed1023 I am a bit surprised NASA didn't go for sintering for Mars, but, I wonder if the problem is because Mars is too cold and windy. The moon has practically no atmosphere or wind and is closer to the sun, which makes sintering MUCH easier there.
Hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen are the three main elements in plastic. The key is producing ethylene gas (C2H4). Carbon dioxide and hydrogen combined in a reaction gives you ethylene and water.
With some known chemistry discovered in the late 1800s, they can literally create plastics out of thin air. They just need to bring the equipment and hydrogen to mars to get it all started.
@@lizzy777 Ok, that makes sense. They put 0 effort to explaining how the process of making the material was going to happen. H2 being bulky wouldn't be the best component to bring in large quantities I would imagine. I figure that would be best made from the water on Mars? but the guy said they didn't want to use water due to its preciousness.
He's right about the false dichotomy. We have enough minds, time and resources to address both, but we have powerful entities that want us to believe otherwise.
We are living in the matrix, friend
@Daniel Mc Dowell the u.s government is not the only one trying to fix the earths problems. There are many countries able to get to space and many countries trying to fix the climate.
@Daniel Mc Dowell Debt is an imaginary concern. Global warming and asteroids are not.
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
its NOT about one or the other, space exploration directly brings technological advancements that benefit earth.
A friend tried to impress me by building a gun with his 3d printer. I'm not impressed.
I've had a Canon printer for years.
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canon printer = cannon printed
is that the joke ?
@@Scarletraven87 Canon (you know, the company??) is cannon, so a big gun...........
I may never get to Mars but living in the same type of 3D printed house they _have_ on Mars is close enough.
The Sneezing Picture hell yeah!
Would have liked to have seen a pressure test.
they did
They crushed it with a bulldozer... That's the test...
@@Kokorocodon how do you equate an external load at the top to an internal pressure load?
@@pOOL_pANTS Even if it's on top. Most of the energy applied by the bulldozer ends up being concentrated in the middle of the structure. An internal pressure would do the same effect.
@@Kokorocodon I disagree. That might be the case, but how do you know since the presumed distributed load depends on the geometry of the structure.
It's certainly better than no-test but I don't think we get a great representation of internal pressure.
Looks like the more challenging part would be to build the giant 3D printer on mars.
You can take one printer to mars. But you can't take 10+ Houses.
@@watermenlon3617 The printer itself is probably built to be self-protected from all those hazardous environments. It's a machine that can be tested and knows that it can work. The real question lies in the house, will the house work.
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@@watermenlon3617 The opportunity rover survived for 14 years, so i think it's safe to say that we can.
We live in the most interesting time since the dawn of humanity.
3D printing homes is fantastic. Living on Mars is a scam because it needs water and an atmosphere humans won’t want to live indoors for the rest of their days.
Interesting. I always thought a geodesic dome would be the most efficient design in terms of strength and stability to counter dust storms on Mars.
The problem with geodesic domes on Mars is that geodesic domes are usually thin and don't provide much radiation protection. The radiation problem kills the dreams of sci-fi domed towns on Mars.
dust storms are actually not that strong and a less critical design concern
I'd like to own such a (solar charged) 3D printer and then loan it for free to one small poor community at a time to 3D print homes and structures for people for free with them only supplying the cement.
Well (except for the Solar part) that's the direction we're headed in.
Printing houses is a Technology that's advancing rapidly.
And once it's easy and cheap - you just have to bring it to poor countries. That's how it always works.
Smartphones, medicine, cars, Television, etc.
@@Pyriphlegeton Why would you be against using solar power?
sanjuansteve I think he’s only saying that modern day 3D printers aren’t usually solar powered & not that he is against using solar energy.
@@marsbanditnyc9043 I'm not talking about integrating solar cells into a 3D printer. I'm just talking about an array of regular panels mounted anywhere to directly provide power like a generator or to simply be in a grid-tied system that powers the printers. Everything can be 100% solar powered with enough solar panels and the will to use them (aviation too for example).
sanjuansteve I definitely agree with you on that solar power & safer forms of nuclear energy are definitely the way forward especially for far flung projects like building structures on Mars! What a time we live in.
Space or fix our planet here? We can do both we dont need to pick one over the other.
@@sonacphotos Earth will die in dozens of millions of years (10? 20? i don't remember) because the sun will become too hot. Eventually it will go supernova and eat the entire solar system. So in the end, the whole point of space exploration is greater than just 'understanding our planet' or 'for science'... or because it's cool... the purpose of all of this is to safeguard life and intelligent life from space cataclysms. Keep in mind that the odds of developping spacefaring life on a planet are so extremely slim that we may very well be the only ones in the entire galaxy... It is our duty of intelligent lifeforms who can understand what's going on in the universe, to survive, to explore and colonize space, to eventually preserve life from total extinction.
@@sonacphotos ah ok sorry master astronomer, my deepest apologies, it won't ever happen again
"Fixing" earth is a million time easier then creating a working colony on Mars.
@@sonacphotos Mars is unlivable to humans. We don't have the technology to do any terraforming and shipping stuff form earth to Mars is too expensive for it to be an option. We are probably centuries away from actually setting up any sort of a colony there.
By the way, 3 dudes siting in one fancy building isn't a colony.
Fixing Earth by comparison is child's play. We have all the tech we need now. Its just that we as a species like to procrastinate.
Yes until one day we need to fix both.
This was one of the best videos I’ve seen on UA-cam all year. Absolutely loved it! I’ve been waiting for an update on AI space factory for a few months so this was perfect!
Inflating modules in lava tubes makes more sense for initial habitats.
I LIKE THE BLOW UP TYPES that roll with the Martian winds ......
It looks like squidwards house......
And I love it!!!!
Maybe they could take a que from Squidwards house in terms of interior decoration as well! The renderings of this Mars hab interior look sterile and not a pleasant place to live.
We can uses those home in mars and build under ground City's too
Congrats on the design of the new house, just if the glass to the top of the building never fell in on Earth it would of fell in on Mars... so a good job it did.
I think that if humans or robots planted some seeds and a few bushes including grass, the atmosphere on Mars would start to change due to the introductory of a new gas i.e. Oxygen, what will be let out by the greenery. What would make the Ozone layer start to become thicker, making it more and more suitable for human life.
Now many many people say that Marses water be under ground and the roots of the greenery that got planted would find liquid that would also be from the snow on Mars.
Yeah but the sun is a DEADLY LAZER
The thought of 3D printing a home is amazing.
By building TERA in extreme environment here on earth, it allows earth population to grow with more places to live, and, at the same time allows to learn to build and live in extreme environment on other planets.
Dude - "You're the guy?"
Guy - "I'm the guy"
Why not just excavate a habitat underground then seal it? The ground will act as a shield for all that radiation and is extremely resilient to micrometeorites.
I agree completely. Much more practical to carve out or even find existing old lava tubes in the ground. Would likely be better at blocking cosmic rays also.
Good point, Icholi88. I imagine that stage zero - the arrive & get things prepared for building stage - they'll have to go build underground bunkers. They need to (1) gather the basalt rock and prepare it for use then (2) grow that bio-whatz-it that mixes with the pulverized (?) basalt to make the walls.
It's a fascinating thought.
If we saw this on Mars for the first time, we would have thought they were made by aliens.
Please correct me if I'm off, but if Mars has iron oxides, would it be possible to weld it? As opposed to printing? Feasibility? Questions.
how much ambient air do you need to do a proper weld? im no expert so im wondering what the integrity of the welded joint would be in martian atmosphere
Thumbnail looks like a community of squidward houses
I wonder what the seismic activity of mars is. Could it make more sense to have underground bases at first?
Underground is the only option radiation levels above ground are deadly.
7:14 that’s so awkwardddd
No 6:32 is awkward
Практичней и безопасней изготавливать и использовать подповерхностные строения на планетоидах!
Where do the polymers come from on the surface of Mars?
Beautiful ! Just Beautiful!! Imagine all that plastic polluting the oceans being remanufactured into 3D printer goo to manufacture sea borne solar energy and wind energy scaffolds and such. A barge that can flip to scrape and harvest the barnacles. Mushroom cloud of ideas.
Seeker: it might take decades
Elon musk: *starts laughing*
karim rebai I know right
it will take decades
What I find funny is that people think Space-X is dependent on NASA... or that, for some reason, NASA is going to Mars with people. Sorry... Space-X is going, not NASA... Musk already said as much.
Theses habitat are so nice that i think i'm gonna built one for myself!
Awesome idea! I wonder if the material will still stick during the printing process with Martian dust blowing all over it...
It's not like a constant dust storm there... they are occasional.
You could save space on the Mars spacecraft (and on trucks if you want to 3D print homes on Earth) by having a smaller 3D printer print a larger 3d printer, you could also have the 3D printer build plates to make its neck longer and the base of the 3D printer 3D printed as well. 3D printing the moving parts will be harder, but still possible. Rep Rap showed that even the extruder can be 3D printed.
Would love a house like this.. Our normal designs are very boring.
In my opinion as far as earth is concerned, we should be building down, not up. By doing so we can reduce our outdoor footprint from the size of a entire house to that of a small room after the construction site is replanted.
Good vid. It's crazy to think about buying a home someday that might be 3dprinted onsite. It never mentioned cost though
I have two questions about the vacuum energy in the universe and the negative and positive pressure in the fabric of the universe
The first question
What is the difference between negative and positive pressure in the fabric of the universe?
The second question is about the vacuum energy in the universe
What molecules are responsible for vacuum energy?
I want to know the molecules generating vacuum energy in the universe
We need an advanced surveillance camera to detect things smaller than quarks
As well as the search for a new way to destroy the quarks
In order to discover the gravitational particles responsible for the vacuum energy
Please provide these questions and suggestions to the research team in Physics and Technology
A few things.. what do you mean by vacuum energy? A vacuum is the absence of any matter at all, so there would be no molecules responsible for vacuums. Also, a main reason we can’t detect incredibly tiny things like quarks is because simply observing them can change them; to “see something, a photon must bounce off it and into our eyes/a camera. But some tiny particles are affected by photons, so we can’t really see themمنوعات يوتيوب
It's like watching one of those cake competitions, except this is actually interesting
I would not want my labs below my living quarters I would want it above and be able to eject the upper level if the lab catches on fire. and the floor above is individual modules. so when you eject the lab the rest of the home is still encapsulated. Or have the labs in a completely different habitat from the living quarters building. This is great to watch thanks for sharing this with us all.
I think it is a good idea to at least start having a plan for when we won’t be able to live in this planet, using that technology to solve some problems of humanity while we still here, and creating money for this projects for human prosperity to solve or current humanity problems and for this kind of problems that will eventually happen in the future, this planet has cicles, and we eventually won’t be able to live here any more, I think we should create money to organize resources to solve those human problems and prevent chaos in this humanity.
Those habits in the woodland looked beautiful
Yes!!!! They used metric!! I’m so happy
Adding a skylight when the literal challenge was to protect the colonists from solar radiation. And then dropping it, risking the entire competition. Still won though XD
I just want to be around smart people, maybe because I am slightly retarted, I have great respect for them
The geodesic domes of now, way to go.👍👍👍👌👌 super.
Отрегулировать, потренироваться и всё получится! :) Потом попробовать зимой в Антарктиде, автономно возвести постройку.
One of the very few videos that's actually good. Recommendation: move you're HQ out of NY: you're killing yourself with taxes.
Made in Space resource manufacturing is so smart and STEM makes it all possible. Outstanding innovation way to go AI SPACE. ❤️
Again, that rectangular shape windows will eventually end up cracking on its corners, that is why airplanes doesn’t have a cornered windows. You can observe on your concrete windows right now and you will find cracks on its corners.
We need to GFTO of this rock if the species is to survive. A sort of contingency plan in case we can't save Earth. "Hope for the best, plan for the worst"
We can screw things up on any rock!
@@keepitreal2902 But the more rocks we are on, the more likely a particular screw up wont kill the entire species.
Ben Higgins if all you see are humans screwing things up, look elsewhere
How do we know this species is supposed to survive?
@@SolSystemDiplomatI'll look wherever I please.
respect and kudos to the tireless works of NASA's Engineers and Scientists. Respect from India😍😘
Just like the moon... Well done Nasa , well done!
What bothers me is not the humans desperate desire to get to mars, what bothers me is that we don't make any effort so save our world. We are already here, and we got what it takes to save it.
if you use clay or some other earth material instead of polymers on earth than im all in
Cellulose fibers and spider silk are both polymers, just like pectin and lignin are, which all are completely biodegradable as three of them make up wood.
Polymers don't have to be plastics made from hydrocarbons. The PLA (poly-lactic acid) they used in their project is a renewable plastic made from plant waste and/or bacterial cultures.
The absolute way of living on mars is under ground
Alexis Calleja finally somebody mentioned that.
We need good tunell builder machine there and this is it.
On surface is ablot of atmospheric risks.
I regret that I'm too old now to embrace this technology. Oh to be young again...
Great. Maybe better than my concept of building domes on the moon with selective laser printing of the lunar regolith by robots powered by a nearby solar array that would later provide electricity for the dome.
Hooray for 3D printing team...
Excellent demonstration of what makes it possible to build for another planet habitat can be done here on earth.
Today's fact 2: A single cloud can weight more than 500 000 kg. ☁️🌤☁️
but how big is that single cloud
@@JosephRandomGameing yeah
Water is a precious resource here on Earth as well
goes into the skylight room ahhhhhhhhhhh burns alive thanks to the fact THERE IS NO ATMOSPHERE
how the hell did the dildo people win
In one of the other videos about Marsha, they quietly tossed off that it is a "water filled skylight" ... that got my attention because I remember reading once, long ago, that water has amazing shielding properties. Just googled and find that ~ 13-ft of water = 6-ft of concrete = 1.5 ft of lead.
@@rocketgranny2261 water is heavy plus water on mars is ice wait have we tested ice
@@spacecorpse3212 You're right LJ. 1 cubic foot of water weighs 8+ pounds. That would have to be a heck of a strong skylight to bear that kind of weight and still be able to protect the room occupants. From the pictures of the skylight, it doesn't look 10-13 feet thick either.
Also what do you mean fix earth? Earth is in way better shape then mars.
The amazon rainforest is on fire we need to fix earth
@games guitars and gore Earth is in great shape no planet like it that we know of. Mars is not much better then the moon. The moon is a lot closer we should start with it.
@who am i. who are you Fools make these climate liars billions. Mars climate is already trashed. Very cold & high radiation & the water is deep in its crust. Scientists are stupid to think there is no water on mars of course there is. Water is everywhere in the universe all you do is burn oxgen with hydrogen = water. Taking care of environment is important but dont scare people like this.
@@ioutra6121 look at China they have made the earth more green planted trees in a desert made big difference. Amazon rain forest was set on fire they needed more land to farm they just wont admit this. We humans will take care of earth dont worry. Mars dont have any trees hows it better? My point is people make the environment sound like dooms day to make money & improve the environment.
@games guitars and gore lol change my mind give me proof
Impressive. Most impressive.
I'am happy for you and your tecnology
we spend way much money on army in every country on earth, wich we can spend on climate change!
Ziko Riko that won’t stop an army invading your country
That's so cool
Замечательная идея, есть только два но...
1. толщина стены
2. где возьмёте материал для печати, логистика то явно дороговата будет.
Чтобы запустить 3Д печать домов нужна энергия, для этого им придётся развернуть приличную электростанцию.
Ребята предлагают печатать дома из пластика, который придётся завозить тоннами с Земли, а таких ракет ещё не существует.
На Марсе большие перепады температуры и пластиковые дома зимней ночью растрескаются, а летним днём растают.
Есть более реальные проекты, но они тоже невероятны.
Основные деньги сейчас у США, а им таяние ледников особо не страшно.
А у островных государств нет ни денег ни технологий для колонизации Марса.
Скорее всего все эти государства просто уйдут в небытие с повышением уровня океана и вместе с ними мечты о переселении на мёртвую планету.
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That really is a thrilling concept and design.
This company could solve housing prices for younger generations in the future. I'm pretty excited!
Looks oddly similar to Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds martian homes from game. I like it.
The tractor tested each habitats strength by crushing it from the top down, but that's not where your external forces will be coming from. Winds attacking it from the side are what they should be worrying about. Even though Mars atmosphere is about 1/100th of earth's, the winds can reach hundreds of miles an hour and carry fine soil with it.
Were good at warming planets and adding to the atmosphere
We should be doing both fixing Earth & going to Mars & the Moon & Titan
Ну точно Кин-дза-дзы обсмотрелись! 😀
Ive had dreams of these buildings.
Let’s print our way to Mars! Love it 🙌🏽😁
"Stay here and fix the earth" 🤗
"either we go to the moon or mars or we can fix earth" well, we need to do both... the goal isn't to go planet hopping my darling child, it is to colonize, study and branch out further to eventually be a space faring species to overcome challenges we will face to become a multi planetary species while still keeping our home as it is today or in better condition using methods that is developed for space travel that isn't so wasteful and will encourage businesses to make the leap to be sustainable or else they will not maximise profits.
*3D printers exist*
Nasa: let's build a home on a different planet.
I think it's more likely that anyone living on Mars would be living underground. It would offer better protection and a subtractive construction technique gets around the problem of transporting materials.
He’s gonna be big
that have to see the world! the nasa printing space things!
I want to live on Mars!!!🤩
As someone struggling to learn/use Blender, I have to say, "Great job!!!" Design is HARD when you're trying to do it right!
It is an interesting design. There are some buts though. Radiation scientists anticipate that regolith based polymer concrete on Mars would have to be a foot thick to provide adequate radiation protection. Even scaling up this design won't provide for enough radiation protection not to mention the glass structures or the sun roof which would let the radiation right through. The other issue that nobody is addressing is that the regolith on Mars is filled with perchlorate. I have seen no analysis of what perchlorate contaminated regolith concrete or printed plastic will do to a human. Another serious issue is that as you freeze thermoplastics and at around 150 below zero it would definitely be frozen, thermoplastic has a major tendency to become brittle and crack. With a 1 bar to 0 bar gradient between the inside and outside of these structures they could conceivably just shatter. Having the structure be a foot thick would mitigate that a lot but they aren't planning nor have they proposed a foot thick structure. They would also have to ship a chemical factory up to the planet since thermoplastics are long molecular chains of C, H, N and O. The carbon is somewhat easy to get on the planets surface and by splitting the CO2 you can get oxygen but hydrogen and nitrogen are not up there in any quantity needed to construct thermoplastic. Also, try scaling a plastics manufacturing chemical plant down to something you can fly to Mars. I do not know the exact answer to the energy requirements to make the polymer then melt it for construction but I think the team that is working on the kilopower reactors needs to step up their output by a lot. They can, at most, presently and presently planned, network 4 10 KW reactors together to power anything or everything in some modular unit close by. Good luck with all that.
There is some sort of a disease impregnating all of these funded experimental projects. They don't meet the fundamental criteria to work in the environment that are supposed to work in. That includes the regolith mining project that can't accomodate simple rocks and depend on having a pure bed of nothing but the proper grain size regolith to work with which is totally absurd. It includes all of these habitat projects also and I have reviewed several. The no gravity environment of space and radiation are not being seriously addressed. The Hall effect thruster project wants 200 KW to ramp up the power of the thrusters for shorter term flights to Mars but the kilopower project can produce 40 for that too. Who is working on Mars dust proof air lock designs and decontamination rooms to remove the dust so it doesn't pollute the inside of a habitat(perchlorate dust regolith again). I haven't seen this. I see plant growing projects showing plants growing in "Mars regollith simulant". It doesn't have perchlorate in it. Water introduced into a perchlorate regolith leaches the perchlorate into the water which uptakes it into the plants so will Mars colonists be eating that? Perchlorate has a nasty tendency to kill plants as well as humans by the way.
Can humans even be sustained in 1/3rd earth gravity perpetually? Nobody is interested in doing this gravitational science to find out. If I were going to Mars I would want to have some assurance that I would survive the trip, could live there without being poisoned and have enough gravity to maintain my physiology BEFORE I got on the rocket.
Necesitaban unos datos . Ya lo descubri eran poco . De lo que falta. Pero gracias al equipo terminamos resolviendo temprano . El trabajo
Stay here and fix the Earth 🙏.
3D printing is a hot technology and that's great, but success on Mars may require even more out of the box thinking.
3D printing is an additive technology, but we've been doing reductive technology for much longer, it's easier, and requires less launch mass.
What if we dug into the cliffs of the Mariner Valley???
Skyscrapers literally carved out of the walls of the canyon... a space age version of Petra.
In this case, 3 of the four walls are already there! We can also make the interior space much larger than anything we could print. The roof can be made of Martian soil, to a depth that would satisfy any radiation protection needs. And one roof could cap a facility 5,000 sq ft per floor, 10 floors down.
So what do we need to bring? A cutter... a cute little robot that starts cutting rock away from cliff walls the same way we quarry marble, today.
We'd need some spray foam... small fissures in the rock cold be escape routes for precious oxygen. We'd want to seal the surface of the rock we live in. So that we not only preserve our artificial atmosphere but also seal out any potential contaminants.
Other than that we'll need the same steel structural supports as any other Martian base calls for... this will slow us to dig a big "box" and add floors and a roof.
The key differentiator here is we can build much large interior spaces than any other solution.
Oh, and the 4th wall? Imagine a giant aquarium wall. Amazing/inspiring views, and if we build it with a gap of only a few cm and fill it with water, it'll be all the radiation protection we need on that wall while also being our water supply... beautiful and functional.
So amazing views, theoretically unlimited interior spaces, lower launch mass. What's not to love?
the only critique i have would be the fact that initially all the luxury designs would be wholly inefficient for the job at hand and thus only ideal for marketing purposes.
I love your idea and so proud with his parents 💝👍
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Agree to what he said in the last part
I clicked because the thumbnail looked like they were trying to build a bunch of Squidward houses on mars.
They better come up with a new plan because I read in recent NASA news that they've discovered that we might need to live underground for a long while if we colonize on Mars. So therefore these homes above ground would be deemed uninhabitable.
Not only that, but Earth has an oxygen level of 21% whilst Mars has .13% oxygen level. We would need to bring special equipment (and a lot of it) for people colonizing Mars to be able to breath with.
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Something like that could be useful on Earth if something were to happen to our atmosphere.
It's a shame that clay houses won't be able to withstand the martian storms eh?