>>13797975Isn't the waste heat good for a water boiler, and climate control?
I'm a Maxi-Colonialist. As in I don't want to cheap out when we first do it. I want to send serious industrial equipment such as ice mining & processing equipment that would produce water and store it in massive underground storage tanks.
I want massive hangers for things like a Global Hawk class of drone which has enough range to do a whole single Circumnavigation flight around Mars.
Think of how flexible operations monitoring could do, or how you could swap out a different camera system in a few hours instead of waiting years for a satellite to be sent to mars. With long range drones you could deliver supplies & man power to a remote outpost such a 200 mile long cave system that's 900 miles away from the base.
I would wager that a NYC house with a similar usable internal volume would cost more than a underground apartment in Mars.
Really, how much money does it take rough quarry out a room?
>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average size of a single-family home in 2015 was 2,687 square feet.2500 feet x 8 foot ceiling = 20,000 cubic feet of space that could potentially last centuries.
