Picture of the Day 20/11/2021 - an early human base on Mars in front of a domed city (Gaia-1) by graphic designer Indranil Saha (known as encreate) from India. More of his art here.
I love retro-futurism like this - but it's totally unrealistic. Cosmic rays would shoot through any domed material we have today and kill vegetation and eventually give people cancer. Some have imagined putting 2 meters of water above the dome sandwiched between 2 layers of super-strong glass - but then that makes you ask what's the point? There's not really a view out by that stage - just ambient light - in which case rather than a dome you could have a regolith 3d printed wall coming up to an aquarium roof that lets enough light through to - hopefully - supplement whatever agriculture or parks you're using. https://astronomy.com/news/2021/08/why-cosmic-radiation-could-foil-plans-for-farming-on-mars UNDERGROUND cities miss out on any sunlight for people and their plants. SURFACE DOMES get sunlight but don't deal with GCR's. So what's the answer? CLIFF CITIES are the answer as they put regolith between you and GCR's, and yet still allow low radiation sideways light and spectacular views to sneak in sideways. Meet Nuwa - a city designed for a million Martians. https://youtu.be/ySERcYMWza0 WHAT ABOUT FOOD? Well, we need plants for fibre and food and oxygen, so there are red grow-light super efficient LED's that can grow plants by giving them only the light waves they need. Nuwa covers some of that above. But it gets better - much better. Maybe we can bypass the whole awkward inefficient reactor to electricity to lightglobe to plant trying to photosynthesise - and just go straight to 'electric food' in the first place. They split water and then feed hydrogen to various micro-organisms. It's called Ferming, and could soon replace much farming as it is estimated to be half the price of soy beans by 2025. George Monbiot writes that "Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet". Say goodbye to farming; say hello to ferming. George has visited these guys and eaten the fermented pancake. Guardian article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet It could start the biggest revolution in our food source since farming 10,000 years ago.
I love retro-futurism like this - but it's totally unrealistic. Cosmic rays would shoot through any domed material we have today and kill vegetation and eventually give people cancer. Some have imagined putting 2 meters of water above the dome sandwiched between 2 layers of super-strong glass - but then that makes you ask what's the point? There's not really a view out by that stage - just ambient light - in which case rather than a dome you could have a regolith 3d printed wall coming up to an aquarium roof that lets enough light through to - hopefully - supplement whatever agriculture or parks you're using. https://astronomy.com/news/2021/08/why-cosmic-radiation-could-foil-plans-for-farming-on-mars UNDERGROUND cities miss out on any sunlight for people and their plants. SURFACE DOMES get sunlight but don't deal with GCR's. So what's the answer? CLIFF CITIES are the answer as they put regolith between you and GCR's, and yet still allow low radiation sideways light and spectacular views to sneak in sideways. Meet Nuwa - a city designed for a million Martians. https://youtu.be/ySERcYMWza0 WHAT ABOUT FOOD? Well, we need plants for fibre and food and oxygen, so there are red grow-light super efficient LED's that can grow plants by giving them only the light waves they need. Nuwa covers some of that above. But it gets better - much better. Maybe we can bypass the whole awkward inefficient reactor to electricity to lightglobe to plant trying to photosynthesise - and just go straight to 'electric food' in the first place. They split water and then feed hydrogen to various micro-organisms. It's called Ferming, and could soon replace much farming as it is estimated to be half the price of soy beans by 2025. George Monbiot writes that "Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet". Say goodbye to farming; say hello to ferming. George has visited these guys and eaten the fermented pancake. Guardian article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet It could start the biggest revolution in our food source since farming 10,000 years ago.
Picture of the Day 20/11/2021 - an early human base on Mars in front of a domed city (Gaia-1) by graphic designer Indranil Saha (known as encreate) from India. More of his art 
I love retro-futurism like this - but it's totally unrealistic. Cosmic rays would shoot through any domed material we have today and kill vegetation and eventually give people cancer. Some have imagined putting 2 meters of water above the dome sandwiched between 2 layers of super-strong glass - but then that makes you ask what's the point? There's not really a view out by that stage - just ambient light - in which case rather than a dome you could have a regolith 3d printed wall coming up to an aquarium roof that lets enough light through to - hopefully - supplement whatever agriculture or parks you're using.
ReplyDeletehttps://astronomy.com/news/2021/08/why-cosmic-radiation-could-foil-plans-for-farming-on-mars
UNDERGROUND cities miss out on any sunlight for people and their plants.
SURFACE DOMES get sunlight but don't deal with GCR's. So what's the answer?
CLIFF CITIES are the answer as they put regolith between you and GCR's, and yet still allow low radiation sideways light and spectacular views to sneak in sideways. Meet Nuwa - a city designed for a million Martians.
https://youtu.be/ySERcYMWza0
WHAT ABOUT FOOD? Well, we need plants for fibre and food and oxygen, so there are red grow-light super efficient LED's that can grow plants by giving them only the light waves they need. Nuwa covers some of that above. But it gets better - much better. Maybe we can bypass the whole awkward inefficient reactor to electricity to lightglobe to plant trying to photosynthesise - and just go straight to 'electric food' in the first place. They split water and then feed hydrogen to various micro-organisms. It's called Ferming, and could soon replace much farming as it is estimated to be half the price of soy beans by 2025. George Monbiot writes that "Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet". Say goodbye to farming; say hello to ferming. George has visited these guys and eaten the fermented pancake. Guardian article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet
It could start the biggest revolution in our food source since farming 10,000 years ago.
I love retro-futurism like this - but it's totally unrealistic. Cosmic rays would shoot through any domed material we have today and kill vegetation and eventually give people cancer. Some have imagined putting 2 meters of water above the dome sandwiched between 2 layers of super-strong glass - but then that makes you ask what's the point? There's not really a view out by that stage - just ambient light - in which case rather than a dome you could have a regolith 3d printed wall coming up to an aquarium roof that lets enough light through to - hopefully - supplement whatever agriculture or parks you're using.
ReplyDeletehttps://astronomy.com/news/2021/08/why-cosmic-radiation-could-foil-plans-for-farming-on-mars
UNDERGROUND cities miss out on any sunlight for people and their plants.
SURFACE DOMES get sunlight but don't deal with GCR's. So what's the answer?
CLIFF CITIES are the answer as they put regolith between you and GCR's, and yet still allow low radiation sideways light and spectacular views to sneak in sideways. Meet Nuwa - a city designed for a million Martians.
https://youtu.be/ySERcYMWza0
WHAT ABOUT FOOD? Well, we need plants for fibre and food and oxygen, so there are red grow-light super efficient LED's that can grow plants by giving them only the light waves they need. Nuwa covers some of that above. But it gets better - much better. Maybe we can bypass the whole awkward inefficient reactor to electricity to lightglobe to plant trying to photosynthesise - and just go straight to 'electric food' in the first place. They split water and then feed hydrogen to various micro-organisms. It's called Ferming, and could soon replace much farming as it is estimated to be half the price of soy beans by 2025. George Monbiot writes that "Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet". Say goodbye to farming; say hello to ferming. George has visited these guys and eaten the fermented pancake. Guardian article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet
It could start the biggest revolution in our food source since farming 10,000 years ago.