Chapter 788: Transparent dome

After completing the construction of the foundation part, the next step is the construction of the ground building.
The first thing to be built is not the houses in the city, but the huge dome surrounding the city.
The air on Mars cannot be breathed, and the temperature of Mars is not suitable for human survival.
Therefore, for this immigrant city on Mars, Ye Su designed a fully enclosed structure.
Only a fully enclosed urban structure can withstand the extreme environment on Mars and protect the safety of residents in the city.
The dome exists to ensure safety in the city and isolate the environment outside Mars.
To put it bluntly, the entire dome is a large semi-circular bowl, which is directly buckled onto the city to form a safe space and protect the entire city.
When designing this city before, Ye Su also planned to adopt the same design as the Mars base.
The buildings in the entire city are designed to be closed, and then all the buildings are connected through some passages.
This design is undoubtedly the most convenient choice, and the construction difficulty is countless times lower.
But in the end, Ye Su abandoned this design plan and decided to adopt a conventional urban layout instead of the design of the Mars base.
The reason why Ye Su didn't adopt the Mars base design idea was mainly because of the living considerations of the residents in the city.
Living in a fully enclosed building, people will feel depressed over time, which is very detrimental to mental health.
The Mars base can be designed in this way because all the astronauts living in it have their own missions on Mars.
And astronauts are in rotation at any time, and will not stay on Mars for a long time.
The residents of Mars cities are completely different. If they are allowed to live in closed buildings in the future, it is estimated that some people will go crazy soon.
Therefore, at the very least, a Martian city needs to use a certain amount of external space for residents in the city to move around.
In the end, Ye Su chose the current design plan, and all the buildings are in an open-air environment.
This Martian city, Ye Su, is planning to arrange ordinary buildings in the city, which are exactly the same as those on Earth, and do not let all the buildings be enclosed.
But such a design pattern requires a protective layer on the periphery to isolate the entire city from the outside environment.
So Ye Su came up with a way to protect the entire city by building a dome.
Ye Su plans to build a huge dome on the periphery of the city, enclosing the entire city.
In this way, the low temperature outside and the air that is not suitable for humans to breathe cannot affect the humans in the city.
The entire dome is like a protective umbrella, protecting the humans inside.
Although such a design is much better for the residents inside, it adds countless difficulties to the construction.
The huge dome that can enclose the entire city is a difficult job just thinking about it.
Just building a dome surrounding a gymnasium on the earth does not know how much work it takes.
Now Ye Su wants to build a dome surrounding a city, which is simply a super project.
It can be said that the construction of the dome is the most difficult and troublesome part of the whole project.
Ye Su is busy with this aspect now, and now he has encountered the biggest difficulty in the project.
How to build this giant dome is a question Ye Su is thinking about recently.
"The construction materials for the dome have already arrived. I don't want to see the lack of materials during construction."
Ye Su was in the engineering command center, asking Xiao Peng about materials.
Such a big dome requires an astronomical number of materials.
It is estimated that all the materials needed to build the dome add up to more materials than the entire city needs.
From the perspective of engineering volume, the construction of the dome accounted for more than half of the entire project. It is no wonder that Ye Su would care about this issue.
Now the construction of the dome is about to begin. If so many materials are insufficient, the progress of the entire project will be greatly slowed down.
"The last batch of materials has been produced and can be shipped from Earth soon."
"You don't have to worry about materials, Mr. Ye, you can definitely keep up with our construction progress."
Xiao Peng confirmed this to the earth yesterday, so he is very clear about it.
The material used for the construction of the dome is quite special and cannot be produced on Mars, so it can only be manufactured on Earth before being transported to Mars for installation.
Many materials for the construction of Mars cities are obtained on-site on Mars.
After several years of development, the mining industry on Mars has been very developed and can provide them for construction operations.
However, many materials have to be transported from the earth due to the difficulty of production, and the construction material of the dome is one of them.
The dome designed by Ye Su is made of transparent material, and the firmness is far stronger than steel, so it can withstand the harsh climate on Mars.
Such an advanced material must not be produced on Mars, so it has to be shipped.
The dome built with transparent materials is of course also transparent, so the city will have a transparent dome in the future.
Imagine that the residents of this city in the future will be able to see the starry sky on Mars when they look up. This feels so great.
If the dome is not transparent, then the residents of this city will live in a large stadium.
No one would like this feeling, which is not much different from a closed building.
Because of similar considerations, Ye Su planned to use transparent materials to build the entire dome.
Of course, after using transparent materials, the difficulty of construction has once again increased a lot.
The transportation of these materials alone is a big problem. In order to transport the materials of the dome, the Blazer has been running back and forth a lot in recent days.
Basically, the materials shipped from the earth, the dome materials accounted for most of the transportation.