so they are going to destroy a glacier from the inside out now
Posted on 06/29/2019 11:01:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
European researchers and students are conducting a mock moon habitat trial under a glacier near the famous Matterhorn in Switzerland's Alps.
Called IGLUNA, the demonstration is organized by the Swiss Space Center and the European Space Agency. Teams from across Europe arrived in the car-free mountain town of Zermatt, Switzerland, last week to set up their experiments, which include an ice-digging robot, a construction robot, an algae bioreactor and a hydroponic system for growing veggies. They've also built a habitat 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) tall buried deep in the ice.
Zurbrügg, who is leading the habitat-construction team, said that his group's original idea was to have one of the other teams use its ice-cutting robot to slice bricks from the glacier and assemble the mock habitat, but the plan turned out to be too complicated to realize for various reasons. For instance, the ice in the glacier isn't pure but mixed with stone and sand, which would cause difficulties for the robotic saw, he said. Instead, Zurbrügg's team manually assembled bricks made from fiberglass and wood.
Some of the other IGLUNA experiments are taking place inside that arched building. For example, Tatiana Volkova, an engineer of habitats in extreme environments and a doctoral student at EPFL, is looking at how people behave in confined conditions. Cameras inside the small building will record everyone who goes inside. Later, using an algorithm to track the movements of researchers and visitors, Volkova will analyze how people tend to move around each other inside the habitat.
"It can help to identify potential errors of design," Volkova told Space.com, adding that once the methodology has been tested, it could be used to study human behavior in more intense habitat simulations, where one set of participants stays in the mock habitat for a long period.
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Biosphere #3, the cool one!
I think they have a big long extension cord leading to the nearest coal burning powerplant.
Mock is the operative word - go live in the tropics and pretend is like living on Venus etc - liberal non-think
I hope they also have a hydroponic system for growing hay and alfalfa and grain to feed the livestock for milk and cheese, if not eggs, chicken and beef, for protein. Or are they going to simulate flying frozen steaks to the moon.
so they are going to destroy a glacier from the inside out now
Sound like a buncha crackpots to me.
I love Switzerland. Where they have to come up with super creative ideas just to have any problems. Grüezi wohl! Hop! Hop! Schwiiiz!
Sound like a buncha crackpots
Vivian: Oh, isn't Elaine fantastic?
George: Yes she is. It's a pity we won't be seeing much more of her.
Vivian: Really, why?
George: Oh, you haven't heard, she's going to live with her grandparents in Redding Pennsylvania.
Vivian: Her grandparent passed away five years ago.
George: Yes they did. I was covering. Elaine has been deported back to Scotland.
Vivian: She's American citizen, I have seen her passport.
George: All right, no more lies. Elaine is been chosen to represent the Upper West Side in the next Biosphere project.
Vivian: I haven't heard anything about another Biosphere.
George: That's because it's underwater.
Vivian: This is insane.
George: Is it?
Vivian: Yes it it.
George: Well, it's all for charity, so what's the difference.
(Now, enough of that. Let's see that pastrami).
[Biosphere #3, the cool one!]
That’s cold, man. Ice cold.
Too bad about her, too.
Indeed.
Kramer had a can of Beefaroni for biosphere 3! Or maybe a can of tuna.
Don’t feed the Beefaroni to the horse, though.
Just remembered her name - been awhile
Kelly Waymire
haven’t they done similar experiments already, with people in confined places for extended periods?
Don’t we already have some real world examples of life in such conditions, such as researchers who winter over in Antarctica and are confined there?
Ausgezeichnet.
Giant steps are what you’ll take...
Antarctica would actually be a fair trial. You’re weeks away from logistical support, bitterly cold, but you can breathe in an emergency. You’d need to be in good health to go.
The Likely Health Checklist for Going to Mars
https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/05/17/the-likely-health-checklist-for-going-to-mars/
But what happens when Global Warming melts the glacier.
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