Final Project

Shane A.

Legislator:  Frank L. Madla, Senator

Design for Mars Base

What will it take to live on Mars? Well, in order to sustain life it will take many things. Also, if you want to learn about the planet it will take even more. To sustain life on Mars you will have to have oxygen, which Mars doesn’t have any of except in the northern ice cap, shelter, food, and clothes. If you want to learn about Mars you are going to need probes, for digging deep into the ground, land rovers, for searching the terrain of Mars.  You are also going to need labs to study the things that the probes and land rovers find. All of these things are vital in learning about Mars’ history and stuff like that.

The most important part to survive in a hostile environment such as Mars you needs oxygen because without oxygen you won’t be able to breathe. I have decided to put my Mars base on the side of a mountain. That way you won’t have to worry about meteors damaging the hull of the base. It is going to be enormous. It will be big enough to fit 200,000 people if necessary. That way the people there can reproduce and they won’t have to worry about room for a long time. It will be installed in Mount Olympus. For food, there will be labs that grow crops and the colony will be vegetarians. They will eat raw vegetables and occasionally they will eat stir-fried food. In cases the colony runs out of their food supply they will have a machine that can rapidly clone food so they will be okay. They will recycle their water and they will have a machine that will go to the northern polar ice cap and transport water from the ice cap to the colony. The Mar’s base will consist of about forty floors. Twenty of them being sleeping quarter. Ten of them are labs. Five of them being storage and the last five floors will be one, which two escape vessels will be in case the people have to evacuate. Elevators will transport them from floor to floor. There will also be stairs in case the elevators are inaccessible. There will be five sets of stairs. One on each side of the complex and one in the very middle of the colony going straight up to the escape vessels. The rooms of the base will very uniform, meaning that they will all be the same. There will be one family per room meaning, four people per room. There will be a bunk bed for the children and a king size bed for the adults. If it is a room for just adults it will be two sets of bunk beds. This will make life at the base very simple. There will be Internet so they know what is going on in the world. It will take about twenty minutes to load a page, so if you think that five minutes is a long time, hope you don’t have to go to Mar’s.

The next part of my paper I am going to discuss research stuff. In order to learn a lot about Mars the lab technicians are going to need lots of stuff in order to do thorough research. There will be microscopes and there will be computers that can do everything that you will need to do a thorough research. There will also be farmers that take care of the plants that they are growing to feed the people. There will be many different types of food that the people will eat. They include; corn, jalapenos, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, beans, wheat, oranges, bananas, coconuts and lots of other things of that nature.

Well, that pretty much sums it up for my final project. I told you all the things that it would take to live on Mar’s and the stuff you need for research. Other than that I thinks that’s all folks!!

Last Updated: 09/07/01