Re:Domes are overrated
by baybal2 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:56PM
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Have the man studied engineering? I don't feel so. Too much drama for a trivial issue.
Point one, if a dome is in tension, you have not put enough weight.
Point two, tents are more manufacturable and robust for as long as cost is concerned.
Point three, massive human space colonisation will only happen long, long after we will get manufacturing automation, automated resource extraction, automated farming, and power production to "sci-fi" levels and above.
We are not even 1% done on that, and that's the biggest point. Without getting to at least 1% on that scale, the talk about even ~100 people research outposts in space are pointless.
Adding to that, once humanity will reach that level, the entire idea of going to space for something we don't get on earth will look silly.
Once we get robots to the point where one can get a skyscraper constructed with a single mouse click, it will likely wouldn't matter much more if that skyscraper will also have to be airtight and have life support installed.
Point one, if a dome is in tension, you have not put enough weight.
Point two, tents are more manufacturable and robust for as long as cost is concerned.
Point three, massive human space colonisation will only happen long, long after we will get manufacturing automation, automated resource extraction, automated farming, and power production to "sci-fi" levels and above.
We are not even 1% done on that, and that's the biggest point. Without getting to at least 1% on that scale, the talk about even ~100 people research outposts in space are pointless.
Adding to that, once humanity will reach that level, the entire idea of going to space for something we don't get on earth will look silly.
Once we get robots to the point where one can get a skyscraper constructed with a single mouse click, it will likely wouldn't matter much more if that skyscraper will also have to be airtight and have life support installed.