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Kiwimaster76
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So in a story I'm writing humanity has found itself on another planet, its larger than Earth but less dense so that the gravity is roughly the same. There is a higher concentration of oxygen on this planet and most of it is pretty habitable. However for reasons that are too long to include say there was a group that decided to live in a meteor crater.
The crater is 21 km across and almost a mile deep, its in the arctic region of the planet and outside of the crater is very inhospitable wasteland, freezing cold, solid rock, basically an island the size of Hawaii's biggest island of barren rock with this crater on it. Inside the crater though is a temperate rainforest (emphasis on temperate, like 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit).
The relative warmth and high rainfall is sustained by numerous geysers fed by natural springs and heated by a central volcano that was made when the impact happened. The people are advanced enough to have some control over this volcano and use it for power and such.
So ignoring logistical problems of getting into a mile deep crater and such, is this a plausible or even possible concept? Could this environment actually exist or are there problems with it that would make it not as hospitable as I've written it? And if there are problems are there any high tech solutions to make it livable? These people have huge amounts of resources and are determined to make it a good place to live.
The crater is 21 km across and almost a mile deep, its in the arctic region of the planet and outside of the crater is very inhospitable wasteland, freezing cold, solid rock, basically an island the size of Hawaii's biggest island of barren rock with this crater on it. Inside the crater though is a temperate rainforest (emphasis on temperate, like 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit).
The relative warmth and high rainfall is sustained by numerous geysers fed by natural springs and heated by a central volcano that was made when the impact happened. The people are advanced enough to have some control over this volcano and use it for power and such.
So ignoring logistical problems of getting into a mile deep crater and such, is this a plausible or even possible concept? Could this environment actually exist or are there problems with it that would make it not as hospitable as I've written it? And if there are problems are there any high tech solutions to make it livable? These people have huge amounts of resources and are determined to make it a good place to live.
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