{"id":10190,"date":"2015-03-20T01:56:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10190"},"modified":"2015-03-20T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T05:56:38","slug":"space-settlement-experimentation-in-northern-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10190","title":{"rendered":"Space settlement experimentation in northern Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of space settlements, there often comes up the question of what are\u00a0the best earth analogs. Communities on small islands, the early New World settlements, and Antarctic science bases are typical suggestions. A New Scientist\u00a0article suggests Canadian Arctic mining towns. Such towns can form very quickly in very isolated and difficult environments – and sometimes disappear very quickly as well:\u00a0New Urbanist: Off-world colonies of the Canadian Arctic – New Scientist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An example mentioned is\u00a0Fermont<\/a>, Quebec, which is known<\/p>\n

for the huge self-contained structure containing apartments, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side<\/a>. The structure was designed to be a windscreen to the rest of the town. It permits residents (other than mine workers) to never leave the building during the long winter, which usually lasts about seven months. The town, designed by Maurice Desnoyers<\/a> and Norbert Schoenauer<\/a>, was inspired by similar projects in Sweden designed by Ralph Erskine<\/a>, notably that of\u00a0Svappavaara<\/a>, a copper mining town in Sweden<\/a>. The building measures 1.3 kilometres (4,300\u00a0ft) long and stands 50 metres (160\u00a0ft) high.[4]<\/a>\u00a0[Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

The V-shaped structure can be seen in this image:<\/p>\n

\"VilledeFermont-00-large[1]\"<\/a>DMA architectes<\/a><\/p>\n

From the\u00a0New Scientist article:<\/p>\n

The town is also home to an extraordinary architectural feature: a residential megastructure whose explicit purpose is to redirect the local weather. Known as the Mur-\u00e9cran or “windscreen”, this structure is an astonishing 1.3 kilometres in length, shaped roughly like a horizontal V or chevron. Think of it as a climatological Maginot Line, built to resist the howling, near-constant northern winds.<\/em><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

However, [Elon Musk] is not talking about building a Martian version of London or Paris. In a sense, we are already experimenting with off-world colonisation \u2013 only we are doing it in the windswept villages and extraction sites of the Canadian north.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Speaking of space settlements, there often comes up the question of what are\u00a0the best earth analogs. Communities on small islands, the early New World settlements, and Antarctic science bases are typical suggestions. A New Scientist\u00a0article suggests Canadian Arctic mining towns. 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