Re: OT NASA CHAPEA Mars Simulation.

"a425couple"  wrote in message news:ffjnO.141237$xL%[email protected]...

On 7/18/24 09:57, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On 10/07/2024 05:39, Titus G wrote:
>>>
>> Four people in 1700 square feet for over a year? (If it was a SF story,
>> at least two of them would have gone mad or been killed.)
>> What about water? Gravity?
>
> There have been previous exercises.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
> :-)

My daughter took her 7th Grade daughter to the Biosphere
a couple of months ago.

As I remember way back when, it was an early dry run on what
a colony could have been like on Mars (or even the Moon).
The experiment suffered problems, one major problem was
all the calculations of oxygen production to meet needs,
was way off because of concrete curing type issues.

Any way, the grandaughter did not see any indications that
it was an experiment on 'off Earth' living.

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I've toured a Boomer, the USS Maine, another closed environment for a place 
humans can't survive. Missile tubes make the hull large enough for somewhat 
less cramped accommodations than other narrower subs. A large difference 
from a colony is that they have plenty of electrical power and stored food 
which can be replenished, they have to produce only their air and water.

I experienced communal living during Army training though not on the job, I 
was a computer communications tech making solo repair trips in a foreign 
country, which suited me just fine.