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The overhead pipes are just ugly to me. The pipes should be underground rather than raised up the way they are.
The explorer needs a tech to add solar panels so it doesn't need recharging constantly and possibly another tech so it can search out the discovered anomalies and research them on their own.
Why not cheat codes to get everything at sol 1 too?
The above ground pipes have a reason. It’s because the ground of Mars would be a lot colder than Earth thus needing a ton of insulation to cover the pipes underground. Having them above ground also allows easier repair.
I didn't ask for a cheat or everything in sol 1. If earning tech for an explorer is considered cheating then all the tech would fall into that category as well. And the pipes are ugly.
The above ground pipes have a reason. It’s because the ground of Mars would be a lot colder than Earth thus needing a ton of insulation to cover the pipes underground. Having them above ground also allows easier repair.
The fluid being transported and the conditions in which it is being transported are different.
Mars is much colder, has a thinner atmosphere, and we’re transporting water and oxygen, rather than petroleum. From a simple standpoint of insulation, burying water pipes makes sense. Hell, even in the far more mild conditions on Earth, most water pipes are buried.
Excavation equipment is VERY heavy, far more so than the mere 35-70 metric tons of payload are going to readily permit.
So the simplest solution is for the drones that are sent to assemble above-ground pipes that they can produce from native materials.
The fluid being transported and the conditions in which it is being transported are different.
Mars is much colder, has a thinner atmosphere, and we’re transporting water and oxygen, rather than petroleum. From a simple standpoint of insulation, burying water pipes makes sense. Hell, even in the far more mild conditions on Earth, most water pipes are buried.
Thanks. I'd appreciate if you put that in your original comment next time, rather than just throw around a "Disagree" and be unnecessarily vague about your source of disagreement. It'd improve the quality of the forum.
Mars is much colder, has a thinner atmosphere, and we’re transporting water and oxygen, rather than petroleum. From a simple standpoint of insulation, burying water pipes makes sense. Hell, even in the far more mild conditions on Earth, most water pipes are buried.
Burying water pipes requires a lot more effort, and repairing surface pipes is a lot easier. To fix surface pipe you need to move repair crew to pipe and fix it. To fix underground pipe you need to unearth it, find a leak (because you can't do it visually without unearthing first), move crew, remove pipe section in question, fix it, earth it again.
And about another liquids...
This is water pipeline, Australia: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sawater/16702185956
We're not using water pipelines so much on Earth because we can use channels. On Mars, I'd say, it's no-go.
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