Planets Natures Habitate:"Volcanic Tube Cities"

[Tolmosoff]

Allmost every planet can be habitated for explorers.

 

The answer ? Volcanic Tubes Icall Volcanic cities.

[Mokele]

No, they aren't. Put down the bong and step away from the keyboard.

[Tolmosoff]

The moon and mars can be habitated.

 

hen a space probe can locate a viable Volcanic tube.

 

Volcanic tubes can run for miles under a planets surface.

 

Alaska mars habitate will cost billions and will be regected by tax payers.

 

Volcanic tubes can be sealed from outside environment.

 

Solar panels can pipe electric currant into underground volcanic cities.

 

Electric can power lighting to ( Oxygen Generation ) like in space station.

 

Electric to give light to farming food and vegetables to explorers.

 

Oxygen generation for space suits and vehicles.

 

Besides volcanic caverns are a great shielding from solar radiatopn that can cause tumors and cancers to mars explorers.

[Phi for All]

Volcanic tubes are also a great conduit for lava, which generates pain and death for explorers.

[Tolmosoff]

Not unless Caverns are treated with some kind of insulation.

 

Topside solar will kill an explorer with tumors and cancers and a backyard cemetary and no one to fly a spacecraft back home.

[Mokele]

Do you have any actual *evidence* of this?

[Phi for All]

Not unless Caverns are treated with some kind of insulation.

This insulation would need to act as a plug against active magma being explosively ejected through the tube, protect up to 1300°C, and be airtight as well to protect against the toxic and explosive gasses associated with volcanic tubes. I would imagine that the resources spent on this would exceed those of shielding from the surface effects.

[Tolmosoff]

Dear Phi :

 

Not unless a space craft with deep seeking instuments find ancient cold caverns that been around for some time.

 

Can our moon base volcanic tubes provide a good habitate ?. quess so. Mars being a cold world will provide a very good habitate.

 

Our early man lived in caves untill then to this day.

 

Materials on planets can provide nessessary materials to insulate volcanic tubes.

I will call this kind of habitates ( Volcanic Cities ) Never has been tryed.

 

But the idea of mine quess won't work.

 

Alaska based Mars Habitate will be costly to send to any planet.

 

Lets give NASA engineers a call and see if they can put instruments for deep surface radar penetration to find cold caverns.

[Mokele]

Could you at least try to use coherent sentences?

[swansont]

What about planets that aren't volcanically active?

[SH3RL0CK]

What about planets that aren't volcanically active?

You mean a planet consisting only of gas like Jupiter and Saturn?

[Reaper]

You mean a planet consisting only of gas like Jupiter and Saturn?

 

 

Mars is not volcanically active....

 

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It's not a bad idea, you just have to make sure that the caverns themselves aren't active when you settle in them. As long as you are not on Io, it is probably easy to find such a cavern.

 

The reason that one would want to be on the surface instead, is that settling in a cavern, while it could shield from radiation, it would be very difficult to grow food without a colossal amount of energy. That's why greenhouses are a must.

 

Size of the cavern is also a consideration; you do not want your initial colony to be too cramped.

Edited June 4, 2009 by Reaper

[Moontanman]

Volcanic tubes are not exactly known for being air tight, plant roots and water penetrate into them and I would assume that air would escape though these cracks as well. One thing of interest is this. Holes on Mars. They are thought to analogous to such holes found on the Earth. Huge deep pits with shear walls. Popular with the cave sky diving crowd. They might prove useful as protected areas on Mars. http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/121/mars-dark-hole.htm