'The thing being underground, yeah. But if it's going to be solar powered - which makes sense, obviously - there are other things to take into consideration. Your surface panels will have to be protected, because if they're not the whole habitat fails when they'll inevitably be hit by rocks, and high energy cosmic rays and solar wind particles will create a cumulative abrasion effect on anything you have on the surface. You'll need a back-up emergency power source...a generator will do well enough, but then you have to consider that there's a lot of outward force from pressurised environments, and materials get brittle at very low temperatures. Your computer system will need to be constantly - and I do mean constantly - monitoring this stuff. You should probably tell your friend to factor that into her programming.'
Jim drops into a chair, wishing he just had full control of the whole thing. There's a lot to plan, and it would be fun. He loves puzzles with a thousand different pieces to coordinate.
'You didn't answer my question about budget, but the reason you might want to mine up there rather than bring stuff from here is that transport costs will be insane. Unless your aliens are just going to carry it all up there by hand. Also, having a simple air lock won't be able enough to get all the dust off spacesuits, so it'll be ingested - dust will be static up there, like I said - and you don't know what the effect of that will be on people. I'll have to come up with a proper way for you to have everyone decontaminate before going in.'
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Date: 2016-11-26 04:34 pm (UTC)From:Jim drops into a chair, wishing he just had full control of the whole thing. There's a lot to plan, and it would be fun. He loves puzzles with a thousand different pieces to coordinate.
'You didn't answer my question about budget, but the reason you might want to mine up there rather than bring stuff from here is that transport costs will be insane. Unless your aliens are just going to carry it all up there by hand. Also, having a simple air lock won't be able enough to get all the dust off spacesuits, so it'll be ingested - dust will be static up there, like I said - and you don't know what the effect of that will be on people. I'll have to come up with a proper way for you to have everyone decontaminate before going in.'