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Re:Domes are overrated by FeepingCreature on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:50PM (#21659038)
Sure but you need to be sure that the thing you're attaching it to can hold the weight. Ie. if the martian floor was the ceiling, you'd have to be able to hang a plane off that attachment point without it ripping out.

In other words, your lip needs to be distributing force onto a sufficient volume of ground to make up 100_000 metric tons of martian soil, per meter of circumference.

Re:Domes are overrated by rimliu on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:42PM (#21659377)
Actually I think just making the underground part cone-shaped would be much better and simpler solution than that lip.