Hi there, I’d like to connect with people to discuss technical aspects of settlement of mars.

I’d look at a house on earth and ask: what things have to be supplied from the outside; what things can be produced inside the house? Houses on earth have piping for water, and cabling for electricity.

Plants can be grown in a green-house using these two ingredients, and the people can sleep in a spaceship.

Comment whatever comes to your mind.

    • threelonmusketeersEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      Chlorates and perchlorates are fairly unstable, and readily decompose into chlorides + oxygen gas when heated. Could we solve two problems at once by washing the perchlorates out of the soil, and then decomposing them to produce oxygen for breathing and propellant?

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 month ago

        Sure, just gotta dig 11.5 to 20 km down to get to some water. Or melt the ice caps, which probably already have the perchlorates frozen in them.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•1 month ago

      I don’t see perchlorates as a big problem.

      After all, plants grow quite well without soil, like hydroponics, I guess.

        • @[email protected]OP
          3•1 month ago

          I was thinking three options:

          • mining from underground (hoping that there’s enough ice underground/water in the mineralic crystals that can be thermically released)
          • water from the atmosphere (believe it or not but the atmosphere in the early morning is actually saturated with moisture - about 0.25 mbar iirc) so it could be extracted through something similar to a room de-moisturizer
          • polar caps (unrealistic in the early game)