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from the intellects-vast-and-cool-and-unsympathetic,-regarded-this-earth-with-envious-eyes dept.
NASA has announced three winners who will share the $100,000 prize in its competition to make virtual Martian habitats.
The 11 participating groups were tasked with making a full-scale habitat using modeling software, building on an earlier stage of the competition that required partial virtual modeling.
The teams were graded on their layout, programming, use of interior space, and their habitat's ability to be scaled to full size for construction, according to a NASA statement announcing the winners. The groups also received points for their aesthetic representation and realism.
The three winning teams were
SEArch+/Apis Cor - New York - $33,954.11
Zopherus – Rogers, Arkansas - $33,422.01
Mars Incubator – New Haven, Connecticut - $32,623.88
This is the third stage in NASA's 3D Printed Habitat Challenge.
The final stage of the competition will be open to the public in Peoria, Illinois and will be held May 1-4 of this year. It will consist of a head-to-head reduced scale print of the structures. The prize in the last stage of the competition is $800,000.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:40PM
Actually, the "door is covered with dust" problem is probably quite soluble. As for the others... well, lets just say underground wouldn't be my first choice.
P.S.: One simple answer to the "door is covered with dust" is just to have the exit doors on raised platforms with sealed stairwells leading down. As you're building the base anyway, that's not much additional work.
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