Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture

Re:Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture by 8as746fd4a5df on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @12:26PM (#34972075)

My prediction is different from that. If humans make it to Mars and start setting up more than just a basic base then I predict that Mars is going to be a plastic planet for the forseeable future. -->Given enough energy<-- and that water and carbon dioxide make it easier to gather hydrogen, carbon and oxygen than other elements makes it very attractive to produce as much as possible from plastics.

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Re:Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture by bryanlarsen on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:39PM (#34973064)

Agreed. If colonized using the SpaceX Starship plan, there are going to be massive factories producing methane. Making those factories slightly larger to produce feedstock for plastic will probably be a lot cheaper than growing bamboo.

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Re:Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture by vineyardmike on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:49PM (#34973905)

Part of the articles point is that for furniture getting plastic in the right shape would be hard. Sure you can use a 3D printer but furniture is massive. You can make a mold… but with what?

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Re:Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture by traverseda on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:41PM (#34975247)

Heat welding plastic sheets should be a lot easier to work with than wicker. Wicker is very labor intensive unless there's something I'm missing.

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Re:Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture by kbelder on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:35AM (#34992367)

Or just cast something like large LEGO.

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