Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/05/what-is-this-mysterious-perfect-hole-in-the-surface-of-mars.html
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It’s a mohole dug by terraformers; Kim Stanley Robinson just explained it to me
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It looks distinctly imperfect.
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And it’s not Elon?
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Elsewhere I see there are 7 possible cave entrances on the slopes of that volcano.
Nicknamed the 7 sisters: “Dena, Chloë, Wendy, Annie, Abbey, Nikki, and Jeanne.”
So is this hole one of those or something else?
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humans would need someplace to live if we’re talking habitation. with no magnetic field, mars doesn’t seem like a friendly place for staycations.
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What is a perfect hole? I would say that it’s different from a divot or a depression, but I haven’t quantified it myself.
By contrast, I can identify an imperfect hole, exhibit A, a cluster of imperfect holes:
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Maybe it was caused by the impact of a large spherical cow?
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Not yet. Unfortunately
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Not yet.
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See, that’s just one of the many advantages of using members of a cult in intendured servitude as the first wave; they won’t be that picky about their accommodations.
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Purchase of a Cybertrukk entitles the owner to one (1) compulsory trip to Mars.
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What the hell is a “Perfect Hole”?
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it’s one that’s not simply not imperfect, but also a step above cromulent. a whole hole, not a half or quarter hole. head like a. and, so on. a hole’s hole, if you will
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From 2 Apr. 2007, that Space.com source? Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop making floating balloon bases on Venus that form and soft-land candy into holes on Mars without getting caught on surveys. Or cakes that when you cut them open are really candy, but soft-landing them… Parchment wrappers with radiation spoilage indicators, maybe? Try for a constellation of things that magnetize in response to solar wind and stub in a magnetosphere?
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