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Lunar and Martian tunnels could contain offworld colonies – Boing Boing
Massive lava tubes under the surface of the Moon and Mars could be prime real estate for future offworld habitats. “With heights that dwarf Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s talle…
Science-fiction authors like Kim Stanley Robinson have occasionally imagined pressurizing craters or lava tubes and filling them with air. But Pozzobon said that scenario is unlikely, not least because in the moon’s lava tubes, openings can be as wide as a football field.”Due to their huge size and the possibility of having leaks due to the fracturing of the rocks, I would see pressurizing them very unlikely,” Pozzobon told Live Science. “What is more likely is to establish settlements within t…
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