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Questions on a place or enclosure in which humans and/or other lifeforms live.
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What maximum speeds can be expected from meteorites?
I kept wondering where this 72 km/s maximum is coming from, and I figured it out! This is the calculation:
Why? Firstly, it's obvious that the Earth is traveling at 30 km/s in its orbit. But wha …
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Did Biosphere 2 make any discoveries later used on manned space flight?
Biosphere 2 operated as a closed entity for study of closed ecological systems for stints between 1991 to 1994. Given that the ISS has been continuously inhabited from 2000 to the present day, it see …
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What kind of leak rates do modern habitat modules have?
I thought I was going to be able to answer this question for myself, after seeing the paper Determination of On-Orbit Cabin Air Loss from the International Space Station (ISS). But it turned out that …
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What is the hollow asteroid concept in "Mining the Sky"
By that I mean, is the author of this book proposing to use asteroids as radiation shielding, a construction material source, as the vessel for a pressurized rotating habitat, or something else? …
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Depressurization of a habitat on Mars
You are correct that the habitat will eventually reach equilibrium with the outside, so gas will only transfer through diffusion around the hole after that. … But even if you completely saturated the habitat with Oxygen, this would not be sufficient for a person to survive. …