Cardman wrote in
:

Not too sure about their inflatable ideas, when it would pose a
serious temperature problem being so thin.

Where did you hear that inflatables must be thin? Transhab, the proposed
inflatable hab for ISS, would have been a foot thick. I see no reason to
believe a lunar inflatable would be any thinner than Transhab.

Not of course to forget the
remote possibility of a puncture, even by the crew.

In hypervelocity impact tests at JSC, Transhab proved to be more impact
resistant than the aluminum hab it would have replaced. I don't think you
need to worry about crew punctures.


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