Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 17:27.
I get cold just reading these entries *brrr*
Couple of questions I'd ask were I to visit camp:
- Has the recent confirmation of significant quantities of frozen water near the surface on Mars impacted the Devon Island work/experiments and, if so, how?
- This may be a dumb question, but I gotta ask. I once read that the Earth's ozone layer was only a bout a quarter of an inch thick if one were to actually account for just the ozone itself. Would it not then be conceivable/useful to create a "double biodome" (one biodome inside another) where the inner biodome is surrounded by a layer of compressed ozone (trapped between the inner and outer biodomes) that would act as a transparent, yet effective, solar radiation shield on Mars? Ozone is relatively easy to make as long as one has electrical power and could apparently be manufactured in situ on Mars. I've wondered about this idea for a long time and hope one of the Devon Island scientists might be able to sanity check it.
Thanks for the cool (literally) blog and great to hear your organs are still adequate at 40. ;) Take care!
I get cold just reading
I get cold just reading these entries *brrr*
Couple of questions I'd ask were I to visit camp:
- Has the recent confirmation of significant quantities of frozen water near the surface on Mars impacted the Devon Island work/experiments and, if so, how?
- This may be a dumb question, but I gotta ask. I once read that the Earth's ozone layer was only a bout a quarter of an inch thick if one were to actually account for just the ozone itself. Would it not then be conceivable/useful to create a "double biodome" (one biodome inside another) where the inner biodome is surrounded by a layer of compressed ozone (trapped between the inner and outer biodomes) that would act as a transparent, yet effective, solar radiation shield on Mars? Ozone is relatively easy to make as long as one has electrical power and could apparently be manufactured in situ on Mars. I've wondered about this idea for a long time and hope one of the Devon Island scientists might be able to sanity check it.
Thanks for the cool (literally) blog and great to hear your organs are still adequate at 40. ;) Take care!
Steven