i will take comments....
i Figured out a way to live on mars
We build a glass dome ond a part of it then build a city inside it
I will have an oxygan tank on the side pumping oxygen out.
Tell me if this sounds good when u answer
(sounds great) or ( not a good idea)
example: " I think it might work but some things might need to be fixed" (sounds great)
2007-07-27 18:55:45 · 16 answers · asked by Joshua S 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
To bad we have no space craft built that could block the radiation and solar winds on the way there.
2007-07-27 19:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why would you pump the oxygen out? The people living in the city will need it to live... That´s not a good idea.
I thought of this when I was in 7th grade too. I´ve learned a few things since then though. Even before I did people had already concluded that domed structures would be needed to live on a planet without a livable atmosphere. On Mars especially since it can never retain a livable atmosphere. It is too small to hold it. So pumping oxygen into the atmosphere would be a waste of good air. Otherwise a dome is a good idea. It would have to be huge in order for humans to feel like they are actually living and not merely being incarcerated. We need space and a lot of greens. Fortunately plants dont require earthlike soil to live. Just water, nutrients and CO2. Unfortunately Mars is lacking in two extremely important substances. Those are water and nitrogen (nutrient). We know there is some water but there is hardly any nitrogen at all. Only traces of it is found in the atmosphere. As nitrogen is essential to life humans cannot live on Mars in any great numbers. Dome or no dome.
And Mars does NOT have alot of CO2. Earth as more CO2 in ITS atmosphere. If it were all, on Mars, converted to oxygen the surface pressure would be even lower than it is there today. Practically a vaccuum compared to earth and still totally unlivable as it would also be alot colder.
2007-07-27 22:05:51 · answer #2 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a very good idea. I am just wondering why you want to pump oxygen out instead of in! The guys in the dome need the oxygen.
The basic idea is good. The cost is prohibitive. A small dome, the size of a house would be viable.
Keep up with your imagination; one day you might come up with a good idea which could work.
Mine is to start a huge nuclear reaction which could convert all the carbon dioxide into oxygen and generate enough heat to keep the place warm. But this would have some serious ethical questions.
2007-07-27 20:49:21 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well It could work but that still wouldn't stop the suns harmfull uv, uvb rays,and also the solar wind from coming in unless it had some sort of protection againts these rays it wouldn't be possible to put humans there becuase they wouldn't survive long without proper protection, they say mars might have had a magnetic field like the earths at one point in the past but since the inside of mars isn't active its magnetic field has ceased to exist so unless you also figure out how to protect humans againts these harmfull rays by building some sort of magnetic field generator, your glass dome city is not yet a possibilty.
2007-07-27 22:21:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude u really think they havnt thought of that yet caus ethats the simplest idea left. From what I know they have a plan to get oxygen to Mars by changing the air there to oxygen
The air on mars has alot of carbon dioxide and so they will put another gas to mix with it I forgot the name and it will create an air that is only livable to plants and when thats done they will have to get mass quantities of plant and stuff there. (and if u dont know plant and trees make oxygen) So after theres enough air populating might not b far away. Note that they say it will take about 1000 years to do so so better set ur alarm clocks.
2007-07-27 20:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by -=Jevon=- 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This type of life-dome has already been devised.
There would still be no grass, tress or water, because the land isn't Earth, its still Mars, except with a glass dome to stop the massive sandstorms.
Give the below article a gander, its what I was going to explain, but done for me.
This is pretty much the easiest way to do things.
Global warming = more atmosphere = water = algae & trees and things = oxygen in atmosphere = life! :D
Sad thing is, we won't see the terraforming process.... maybe our grandsons or their children.
2007-07-27 19:08:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can't build a artificial habitable environment that way.
But yeah, so far all fiction about living on mars that I've come across is that humans can only live indoor. that's just the way mars is, if you wanna stay there, you'll have to build like a massive space station there, where you live inside of it.
Bnd you can't just pump oxygen out of tanks. You'll need sophisticated system to recycle the air.
2007-07-27 23:38:47 · answer #7 · answered by Hornet One 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a good idea. Near the asteroid belt. Look at all those craters. Know how they got there.
Glass
What happens when a rock hit glass at 500 MPH
Best way is under ground or in a mountain.
2007-07-27 22:29:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doe this glass bubble you thought of have a bar to brink beer from. If yes then sounds good to me. I'll come and live there.
2007-07-27 21:49:44 · answer #9 · answered by Onin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well home depot is having a greenhouse dome sale in 2 weeks, they deliver. lol
i'm in a hmmmm gotta figure this out if it's feesable monent ..get back to you on this one
2007-07-27 18:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋