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Building Blocks for the First Permanent Moon Base
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Building Blocks for the First Permanent Moon Base |
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You're thinking of MYCROFT and his idea, "We could throw rocks."
Sweet.
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apostrophe indicated possession. Moon is.
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The problem is what lunar gravity will do to the human body as children are born on the Moon. I don't think we will ever colonize the Moon or other planets in the solar system until we heavily bio-engineer ourselves. Until then, we're just visiting or letting the robots do all the work.
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Living in space without some sort of artificial, created gravity will be impossible. Or at least will significantly shorten our lifespans.
The best hope for the moon colony is to build very large rotating recreation facilities, to generate g-forces. That way every colonist will be able to recreate and relax for full days at a time.
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Sounds great...except for the bit where they all freaking _die_ during liftoff. That part might not sit so well with the AARP crowd.
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*rimshot*
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could you pack a mold with ash and ali powder and 'fire' it in an underwater setting? (as in create walls etc in place more easily than trying to drain water / fill with concrete... thinking you tow the mold into place, site it and fire it (locking it to the seabed))
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Effectively, you could have HUUUUGGGGGEEEEE arrays build far in advance for any base.
Frankly I'd be drawing up plans for solar-cell building rovers right now.
Sure, it would take years, decades even, but they could work pretty independantly and for a long time. Its not like theres much weather like mars.
Eventualy we would have lovely big arrays for use by any base or mission that wants to plug into them.
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