<![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @Evil Tortie's Mom (and @Grey_Area, @gods-n-clods, and @aspiringexpatriate): Thanks for the spiffing comments!

@AmishJohn: Depends on who you ask.

Stephanie A Fox

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> What about those concrete "dome homes" they've been building in hurricane zones lately? They look ideal for this, though there isn't a "dome city" or even a "dome village" yet.

Emily_Cotlier

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> John Arnalukjuak High School is in Arviat. Thats the name of the small city in Nanavut. Arviat.

Fmadden

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> Changed to "United States and Mexico."

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @AmishJohn: Central america is a social designation. American's don't want to be grouped in with Mexicans. There is no such thing as Central America on maps.

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> Comment on Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers Great piece! One of the first things I thought of after returning from my first Burning Man is how well some of the basic concepts would work in a Mars colony. The first cities on Mars will be tent cities. And to keep the colonists sane and happy, I can see some regular carnivale parties becoming a part of the social life. Mars colonists will party hard you can bet that! Who will be the first colonists to smuggle psilocybin mushroom spores to Mars? That would be the easiest psychoactive to grow and harvest in those conditions.

NessaDafoe

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @Stephanie A Fox: Burning Mons? Is that an, um, 'social disease'?
@mikethegirl: I've always considered Mexico 'Northern Central America' myself.


AmishJohn

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @Editor:
Mexico is in North America. You mean Mexico and the American Southwest. To be more accurate, you might want to refer to the three groups of people generally believed to have built most pueblo dwellings, the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon.

Fix your post before it becomes an international incident!

mikethegirl

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> As smarter writers than me have postulated, all humans on Mars have to be underground, or under domes. There is no air. There is no magnetic field, so all that radiation from Sol will cook anything on the surface. Still, some pretty pictures. Take the crater colony and do as Kim Stanley Robinson said and put in under big tent-domes. Mars sucks for humans, we're better off on big ships that could move behind Mars to escape solar storms. And the gravity is too weak.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> The image of Dubai on Mars cracked me up, but then Vegas was just over the top.

These megacities didn't arise out of the barren desert because they were somehow especially suited for the environment -- they did because of, in the case of Vegas, an enormous influx of money, and in Dubai, an easily-exploited labor pool -- rather brute-force solutions to overcoming inhospitable conditions by throwing resources at them. Manufacturing paradise.

I liked the pueblos, though. Reminded me of the Mars on Futurama. Where the buggalo roam!

bluewyvern

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> Pueblos.. I think i read that the north pole is several kilometers lower than the mean for the planet, good place to start. Or down in Valles Marineris. Pueblo in a deep valley . Keep what air you have in one place.. OD dome over a nice deep crater.

codydog

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> Las Vegas has something none of the others have, a MONORAIL. Can you imagine a martian city without a monorail? I can't.

ndgmtlcd

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> Spiffing indeed! Nunavut and Antarctica look the most practical of course.

Before I saw the picture, when I read "pueblo", I was thinking more of Mesa Verde -- tuck that into a Martian cliff and roof/wall it over, ta-da.

Also, I'll totally take Garrison's seat in the spacevan to Burning Mons.

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @Eirias: Oh I think it will have to be. Too much to lose if a tiny amount of precious water goes to waste. So people might litter, but they won't waste precious resources.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> Of the many things possible colonization of Mars will involve, an environmentally conscious "leave no trace" mentality will absolutely not be one of them.

Eirias

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @Gopherit: Nice and toasty there.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @Stephanie A Fox: Yeah, by the time he goes to Mars it will be totally uncool.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @Stephanie A Fox: I do believe those "craters" are actually calderas on top on one of the giant shield volcanoes on Mars. Burning Mons, indeed.

Gopherit

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @Garrison Dean: Man, you say that *every* time we ask about Burning Mons.

Stephanie A Fox

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> This is some nice (quickly done) graphic spiffing, Stephanie. We need some canals though, yes? Cheers!

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> @aspiringexpatriate: Yeah, I like the Nunavut one the best I think. Though Black Rock City does look lovely in a Martian crater.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> I'll practice changing Burning Man to Mars as the topic of this sentence from now on.
"Yeah, I know you dig it, but I'm pretty sure its not going to be my thing. Maybe if I have the money next year ok?"

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> I am So a Pueblo Martian.
Lovely graphics too. Free Mars!

gods-n-clods

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> Eh, you just wanted the graphic designer to earn her money. And well done at that.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers]]> Tataouine?
Or more interestingly, all of the different levels of Cappadocia?

92BuickLeSabre

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