alt Hacker News> Permanent means self sustaining. I.e biodome completely isolated from outside with its own atmosphere.
According to whom exactly? For me, permanent means "permanently without breaks".
> Permanent means self sustaining. I.e biodome completely isolated from outside with its own atmosphere.
According to whom exactly? For me, permanent means "permanently without breaks".
If you want another word for that, go with "Continuous".
The ISS has been continuously occupied since November 2, 2000. But it was not, in fact, expected by anyone to be a permanent station; It is made of non-replaceable parts that age and fail (decade scale), it only has very limited life support supplies on board (month scale).