New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Inky's idea of bringing in more air is sound. Given the low gravity the main effects on the Tourist site would be making human powered flight easier and sunburn far harder. Which opens up the possibility of peeling off members of the economic development board to fight against each other. Which would be the most effective way to defang such powerful opponents.

And honestly, the engineering staff probably should be fired for not proposing it as part of the project. Lifting all that mass out of a 20 km deep hole has to be ridiculously expensive, if you could've made your pit only 18 or 19 km deep and gotten the same effect by bringing in more air, which couldn't be nearly as expensive to move as all that dirt, you really should have already done that. That extra kilometer you aren't committing yourself to pumping the planet's hydrosphere up every few months for eternity to prevent your pit from flooding would've been a nice maintenance savings too.

Honestly, the energy levels required for this project seem so enormous it might have been cheaper to cleave oxygen out some of the rock to do that. In any case is absolutely would have been [vastly] cheaper to dig a much shallower pit, or build a wall, and put a roof on it held up by a pumped higher air pressure. Whoever proposed this project can't have thought it through very carefully.

"You idiots spend a quadrillion dollars of the company's money digging a giant hole in the ground when you could've built domes enclosing the same volume for only a few hundred billion?"