what building materials will be needed to make a biodome around mars?
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The biggest problem will be getting Lowes or Home Depot to deliver the materials
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Well, you are correct in that sittin' around will end in our collective lifes' destruction.  And attempts at proving life beyond Earth are ongoing.  Many of the missions to Mars are currently trying to prove that (among other things).  SETI is also an attempt to see or hear if anything is out there.  But that's a shot in the dark (har, har, de har har).\n\nThere are some significant steps being made to make spacecraft that can go "fast".  VASMIR (plasma rocket) among other things.\n\nThe two technologies that will drive us into the next level of abilities are quantum and nano technology.  Those will have significant impact on everything we build and contemplate.\n\nEventually our sun will get hotter, that could boil off our oceans (way before the sun bloats).  The Earths core could also cool enough that our magnetic field dissappears.  This would cause our atomosphere to slowly whisp away.\n\nBeing able to live in more hostile environments with nearly 100% recycling ability is our greatest challenge.  WIth that, we can start making our way out of this solar system and on to the next.\n\nWrite me for more discussion.  Fa shizzle.
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I did a model of Mars once using a very large popcorn bowl and papier maiche.  No idea how to spell that, but any craft store will have it.  It made a nice hemisphere.  It's be pretty easy to stick toothpicks in the wet stuff as foundations and then use foil or something around it...\n\nWe also threw small rocks at the wet plaster to make craters....
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The U.S. Armed Forces already has a station on Mars.  They also have a base on the moon.  To colonize is a matter of money to fund the project and construct infrastructure on Mars.  I would say within 100 years.
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Still no life is mars,\nLet mars be the beautiful. if life comes there also then it will be earth.
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With an orbit of where earth is, 149,600,000 km, that's a surface area of 7.12383E+15 km², i think...\n\nYou can fit approx. 11,700 earths in a single ring around the sun, so you can imagine the amount of materials needed for a dyson sphere is pretty massive! (although Jupiter is more than a 1000 times more massive than the earth!)\n\nI think you might even need to destroy whole solar systems to get the materials required, but the planets, moons & asteriod belt would be a good place to start, assuming you need specific materials like metals especially.\n\nDon't even think about the cost!
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Probably silicone and iron.   It's a friggin big rock.   Hollow it out a bit; near the center the gravity is probably near earths gravity.
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The temperature on Mars ranges from -140 C to 20 C (-220 F to 68 F) with the mean temperature being -63 C (-81.4 F).  While it may get mildly warm during the summer, Mars tends to be bitterly cold most of the time.
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It depends on a variety of things: the angle of entry into the atmosphere, the size of the comet, the composition of the comet, etc.\n\nAn interesting note: one of the proposals for terraforming Mars is to use ice-coments to raise the amount of water vapor, create a greenhouse effect, and both warm the planet and add to the water on Mars.
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How will you keep warm?\nIt will be lonely without other people, including women.\nYou need to work on modular housing for atmospheric-interior pressure differentials.\nYou need to know where the water is located and how to get a handle on it.\nYou need energy source(s).\nYou need entirely new clothing and suit for outdoors.\nYou need a food supply and a plan for replenishment.\nWhat is most valuable or needed will not be known for sure until people gain experience by living there.\nLots of people will also need a Doctor/Surgeon.\nYou will need to visit Finland first.\nYou will need to know sub-surface temperatures, have a piping engineer, a construction engineer (specialized).\nShould you live underground? How far? What about meteorites?\nHow best to make use of existing terrain? Needs a very old geologist with lots of experience everywhere.\nWhat about people who become criminals or go nuts? You need to be able to send them back to earth...the alternatives are not pretty.\nYou need lots of energy-efficient bio-friendly lighting, especially to avoid depression.\nSame for plants -- which ones? Some colorful veggies and flowers, for sure.\nSo you will also need gardeners, horticulturist.\nYou will need excavating equipment that operates in this environment.\nWhat kind of transportation is best for Mars??????\n\nJust a start, but if you do not think of these things first, you will have trapped yourself in a place worse than Earth, though that may be hard to imagine until you consider the matter.\n\nShould weapons be allowed or banned?\nHow will the community be governed?\nDemocracy would apply to some things, in other cases the person who knows must be dictator, lest unforgiving mistakes result.\n\nMany things we take for granted here will need constant monitoring. More recycling necessary, less garbage.\n\nWhat about long distance transport, need aircraft adapted to Martian atmospheric conditions.\n\nThis all has to grow for many, many years before it will approach self-sustaining. Meanwhile, without planet Earth to call on for help...\n\nVisit Biosphere and Antarctica before you decide
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The only clues to life on Mars are that it once had water, and there may be water beneath the surface in which some kind of primitive life might have survived from Mars watery period.  \n\nSome water ice also forms at the poles, and may harbor some primitive lifeforms that respond to the seasons.  But no probe has been there to do the study.\n\nThere is still a lot of debate regarding the Mars meteorites and whether they actually contain microbes.  Firstly, they may not be fossilised microbes at all, and secondly you have to show clearly that the meteorites have not been infected by Earth microbes. \n\nSo, nobody to date can say with any certaintly that life exists anywhere else but on Earth.\n\nFood for thought.
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You could make a model of the solar system.  Use different sized Styrofoam balls for the planets.
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u also need to create a biosphere,,self contained sealed enviroment that has oxygen producing plants and also plants for food,and a filtering system for water. and a waste mangement system all self contained. and a communications system back to earth.
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Think about the distances involved.  The supports for the tunnel would be impossible.  Also......even if it was possible....remember that once the tunnel is out of the atmosphere it would be bombarded by meterorites, space debris, etc.
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should be glass. unless in its original form of sand than should be water. Remember Super-man made that huge piece of glass to reflect the sun an blind those crazy alien people!
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First we would need a secure dome to live in, to retain the air we need to breathe, and a way of removing the carbon-dioxide from it - plants are good at this - and we would need to keep the dome heated, as Mars' warmest day is colder than Earths' coldest, I remember reading.  We would have to use hydroponics to grow food, and meat would be a luxury of the past. Expect an awful bland diet for years. Gravity is something like 2/3rds of ours, so our activity in the dome would be pretty easy, but you'd need to learn how to sprint again, if you were into running, and imagine the hundred metres being run in not just under ten seconds, but perhaps six!  Mars would actually be a great place for the elderly to retire to - less fall injuries, less heart stress.  Children born on Mars would grow very tall, perhaps damaging them - tall has its' downsides for humans, particularly back and circulatory troubles.  Nuclear bombs detonated out on the Martian plains would generate enough heat to release the water scientists tend to agree is frozen in there, in the soil and rock, and if large panels of black material were laid out, their albedo would catch and retain heat.  We need a thick, oxygen rich atmosphere.  Mars' is very thin, and with little oxygen.  Such 'Terra-forming' (making Earth-like) would be a huge undertaking.\n  So there you are, stuck in your dome, bored, hurt yourself badly from running at 40mph, vegetarian, with nine-foot tall kids, and Grandpa is 168.  Perhaps death would be preferable...
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G'day good question!!\nWell I'm all for space exploration, cos in the very long term it will be important for us to leave this place, scientists believe that places like Mars actually contain water in the soil in the form of Perma Frost, and if it could be released then perhaps we could live there one day. The giant moon of Jupiter ( Europa) is covered in a sheet of ice, what is under the ice is not known, perhaps a type of life form ( now that would create all sorts of questions don't u think?)