<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg7640471#msg7640471">Quote from: DarkRose15 on 30-01-2013, 22:51:30</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Got rid of link since it wasn't needed. Sorry.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>No problem, hun. I try and police for consistensy for everyone's benefit!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg7640456#msg7640456">Quote from: Blinkin on 30-01-2013, 22:48:47</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Crys may have a different view of the size than I do, so I'll leave that answer up to her.<br/><br/>Mentally, I see the shelters as having to be:<br/><br/>1. man-portable, or at least storable on a small vehicle as part of an emergency survival kit<br/>2. self contained, it's own oxygen supply and power unit<br/>3. self deploying<br/><br/>These requirements means that it would be small, probably no more than 4 or 5 feet tall and probably not much more than 6 feet in diameter.<br/><br/>This should sleep 2 relatively comfortably and 3 in a pinch (4 if you're really friendly) It may not make any sense, but the more people, the more air used by person.It has to do with the CO2 scrubbers and higher demands on the pressure. 3 people actually breath and exhale more than 1 person x3. <br/><br/>I know that "man-portable" in the lower gravity means that you can carry more individually, but it's the space issue that dictates an emergency shelter. On the other hand, the colony probably has "several" larger shelters for this kind of expedition, and those aren't quite so size restrictive and might sleep more. So, in the end, it's up to Chrys.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I was thinking something along these lines....<br/><br/>(http://theloop.la/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mars-one.jpg)<br/><br/>These are not emergency modules - which are in every vehicle, but rather are semi-permanent units. As such they don't need to be man-portable or self-erecting.<br/><br/>They do need to be/have:<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>self contained for life support</li><li>easily erected and light in Martian gravity, and easily collapsed</li><li>anchored to the ground</li><li>able to stand up to a dust storm</li><li>radiation proof</li></ul>