It's also good to note that one moon-day is 28 Earth days. I don't know how well plants can adapt to a 28day cycle, so working purely off of natural sunlight may be difficult.
One disadvantage of this system is that because the telescopes are spread out, they will all observe through significantly atmospheric paths. I think clouds would be easily detected, but refraction by hotter and colder cells of air across the array would make it more difficult to combine the data streams from each telescope in a meaningful way. It sounds like something that adaptive optics can solve, but I'm not very well versed in the topic. Any thoughts?
I might be wrong, but I think a tight scuba suit would feel a lot different if you wore it in a vacuum. Ideally, it would squeeze you only as tightly as the earth's atmosphere is squeezing you right now. The key, and I think this is your concern, is to make it breathable. It will also help to make it tension only in the circumferential direction around your joints, to ease bending.
I would assume that only the innermost layer would be skintight, taking care of the pressure problem. I bet it could be extremely permeable; it's an interesting materials science problem to find a material that could provide the correct tension and yet allow the skin to breathe.
I think additional layers on top of the inner skintight layer could take care of thermal and radiation problems. These layers would be like wearing regular clothing, because there would be no need to pressurize it. However, it would probably need to be airtight and contain a friendly gas at mars atmospheric pressure...I'm not sure how the skin would respond to the Mars atmosphere.
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It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!
After that it's just fun.
It's also good to note that one moon-day is 28 Earth days. I don't know how well plants can adapt to a 28day cycle, so working purely off of natural sunlight may be difficult.
One disadvantage of this system is that because the telescopes are spread out, they will all observe through significantly atmospheric paths. I think clouds would be easily detected, but refraction by hotter and colder cells of air across the array would make it more difficult to combine the data streams from each telescope in a meaningful way. It sounds like something that adaptive optics can solve, but I'm not very well versed in the topic. Any thoughts?
there really isn't a real "Right to Privacy" in the Constitution
Well then there should be. Who's in favor of a 28th amendment guaranteeing an explicit right to privacy?
How do you guys over there feel about the ubiquitous video surveillance?
I might be wrong, but I think a tight scuba suit would feel a lot different if you wore it in a vacuum. Ideally, it would squeeze you only as tightly as the earth's atmosphere is squeezing you right now. The key, and I think this is your concern, is to make it breathable. It will also help to make it tension only in the circumferential direction around your joints, to ease bending.
I would assume that only the innermost layer would be skintight, taking care of the pressure problem. I bet it could be extremely permeable; it's an interesting materials science problem to find a material that could provide the correct tension and yet allow the skin to breathe.
I think additional layers on top of the inner skintight layer could take care of thermal and radiation problems. These layers would be like wearing regular clothing, because there would be no need to pressurize it. However, it would probably need to be airtight and contain a friendly gas at mars atmospheric pressure...I'm not sure how the skin would respond to the Mars atmosphere.
(I'm the AC from before)