Future Homes On Mars

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Japan Fixes Fukuoka City Sinkhole In 2 Days

The Japanese once again proved that their workmanship and efficiency are top level. A 30m by 27m and 15m deep sinkhole opened up outside a busy railway station in the city of Fukuoka, damaging the road and threatening nearby buildings. However, it took only 48 hours to repair power cuts, restore gas and water supplies, as well as fill everything with 6,200 cubic metres of sand and cement.

According to the mayor Soichiro Takashima, the affected ground is now 30 times stronger than before. The workers involved in this engineering project have been praised by social media and everyone are happy that there wasn’t a single report of injuries.

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Enormous sinkhole swallows large section of Japanese street

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What The First Human Homes On Mars Might Look Like

By Michael Gardiner on October 31, 2016

The walls will be ten feet thick to insulate against cosmic radiation, micrometeorites and below freezing outside temperatures.

National Geographic

How we’ll get to Mars has long been the hot question in science, but what will we do and how will we live once we get there?

In conjunction with their new show, Mars, National Geographic has teamed up with the U.K.’s Greenwich Royal Observatory to create a model home showcasing what humanity’s first habitat on Mars may look like.

The National Geographic model is an igloo-like structure built with recycled spacecraft parts and brick made of microwaved Martian soil, forged from materials resembling the rocky Martian soil. It features a double air-locked entrance, transparent viewing dome, a large communications transmitter, and stability wings to protect it from Mars’ punishing winds. Likewise, the walls of the habitat will be about ten feet thick to insulate against outside temperatures that can drop as low as -158 degrees Fahrenheit.

According to National Geographic, these bare-bones habitats (inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes) would expand module by module as future missions delivered additional materials, each structure connected to the next with specially constructed corridors.

This revolutionary structure, which could actually prove instructive when the time comes to put humans on Mars, will be but one portion of National Geographic’s Mars. The show will also feature interviews with spacefaring experts such as Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and The Martian author Andy Weir, who will all help explain exactly what humanity needs to accomplish to get to the red planet.

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