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    1 year ago

    Oh! Oh! I’ve thought about this!

    It would make more sense to build habitat craters, dug deep enough into the ground that the surface air pressure would be at a level tolerable to humans (even if the atmosphere mixture was bad, being able to simply wear a respirator instead of an entire suit would be huge).

    I did some math once, on Mars a crater several miles deep would have a pressure similar to Earth’s surface.

    I think the Moon was like 40 miles or something, which at that point would probably run into other problems that I am not smart enough to worry about lol