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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: AZRedhawk44 on January 15, 2014, 03:56:21 PM

Title: Robots to build structures on Moon
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on January 15, 2014, 03:56:21 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2539857/How-3D-printing-help-colonise-moon-Contour-Crafting-technique-build-lunar-bases-astronauts-just-24-hours.html

Would you live in a concrete building with an atmosphere inside but vacuum outside?

I sure wouldn't choose to.

Maybe fused rock or artificially created lava flow structures, but not concrete.  Especially in light of the massive environmental failures experienced by BioSphere 2 here in AZ, when the concrete started curing at different rates, inside versus outside the structure, due to variances in oxygen levels.

Title: Re: Robots to build structures on Moon
Post by: Tallpine on January 15, 2014, 04:06:50 PM

Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on January 15, 2014, 03:56:21 PM

Would you live in a concrete building with an atmosphere inside but vacuum outside?

Assuming the atmosphere contained oxygen and some way to purge CO2, you would live until the atmosphere leaked out.

You would also need food and water, of course.