Humans can live in pits on Mars

Plans to build a domed house or something, though it sounds great, will actually kill us. Therefore, it would be more feasible to bring a tunnel excavator here.

Recently, SpaceX's chairman and COO Gwynne Shotwell interviewed CNBC about the possibility of cooperation between companies founded by Elon Musk, and made predictions about the prospect of humanity settling on the planet. Red. According to her, humans can only live at a depth of about 6 feet (1.82m) below the surface of Mars.

Want to live on Mars, humans can dig underground tunnels.(Photo: Futurism)

'I think Boring itself will be the solution to help us build houses on Mars when we need to dig tunnels for people,' Shotwell said. Even, she could not predict the intentions of the Musk boss, because he himself mentioned many times the possibility of using Boring's technologies to build underground houses on Mars.

'If you want, we can build an underground city', Musk said in a Q&A session at an International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSR & D) in July. / 2017. 'People are always looking forward to being on the surface, but we can build a huge number of houses beneath Mars with' boring 'technologies (play words: boring) but fit' , he emphasize.

SpaceX originally planned to combine with Boring to bring people to Mars, so it would come as no surprise if the two companies shook hands to realize this distant prospect. However, the question is: how many people will really want to leave Earth to live on the Earth's planet? And what about the previous ideas of Musk about glass dome houses, or the residential communities living above? It turns out these things, although they sound great, will actually kill us. Because it is much thinner than Earth, and there is no magnetic field like ours, it means that if people settle here, people will be less protected from cosmic radiation, leading to the risk of a myriad of health-related problems.

The idea of ​​building a domed house on Mars.(Photo: Inverse).

Also according to NASA, there are several options to protect Earth's inhabitants on Mars, such as building houses with materials used to make spacecraft to absorb less radioactivity, or finding ways to make those New materials, more durable. But no matter which option you choose, the cost will be extremely expensive.

So, perhaps putting a tunnel excavator on Mars would be the least expensive way to do it if you want to build a house for people to live safely on Red Planet. At that time, even if we lost our broad vision, we could still sustain life, clear thinking, reproductive function and say no to cancer.