Ok, the real reason is that I wanted the landing pads and the city in the
picture together.  Maybe I will move them just for safety, you never know if
NASA will get this and use it to design an asteroid city :)

BTW: Check this...

http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

I found it quite edutaining.



"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> Bryan Valencia wrote:
> > I guess my thinking is that the ships would weigh like 15 pounds in this
> > environment, so you could probably land right on the dome without
damaging
> > it
>
> Well, you might be able to rest it on the dome, but you'd have a hard
> time crashing it into the dome. It may weigh only 15 pounds, but it
> still has the same inertia it does anywhere else. That is, if it weighs
> 15 pounds but masses 5000 tons, and you're between it (moving 1 MPH) and
> a rock wall, chances are you're going to get squished.
>
> And now I'm *really* being pendantic. ;-)

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