Re: Mars Colony Artist/Engineering Concepts
<Similarly, I don't think this concept will be as practical as large, sealed underground tunnels. The glass ceiling would be a particularly difficult design.
well I certainly doubt the first outpost there Could use such a concept, at least not initially. Perhaps it would be better to use a grid of fused silica, rather that long pains. More analogous to the massive wall of glass on skyscrappers.
hmmm. . . what goes into fusing silica?
-Justin Kelly