PromoTheRobot Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 2 hours ago, Fadingpain said: Why would you want a moon colony? The moon is fairly well understood and fairly uninteresting. The idea is to go where there is some interesting stuff to check out. The closest of those locations in our solar system is Mars. Jupiter has several moons that would also be very high on the interest list, but they are even further away. One of Joe Rogan's best podcasts ever was with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. He discusses this and the various technical issues that still need to be overcome. You can watch/listen at Joe Rogan's website or Youtube. The biggest reason is testing out the systems needed to sustain life in a hostile environment while only being the days from Earth instead of a year. But then there is the mining of resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 ...did Walmart break ground there yet?............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 19 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said: The biggest reason is testing out the systems needed to sustain life in a hostile environment while only being the days from Earth instead of a year. But then there is the mining of resources. I hear the moon is rich with Unobtainium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 On 6/8/2018 at 7:06 PM, PromoTheRobot said: Plenty of solar electricity. (No clouds.) Two weeks at a time. On 6/8/2018 at 7:06 PM, PromoTheRobot said: The Moon is probably loaded with minable metals. Not really...and where there are concentrations of metals tends to be the highlands, which are most difficult to get to. The maria - where we actually can land - are metal-poor basalts. There's probably rich deposits of metals in some craters, deposited by asteroid strikes. But it'd be easier to just go out, grab an asteroid, put it in earth orbit, and mine it, than it would to collect it on the moon and throw it out of the moon's gravity well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Must be a Whole Foods there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 On 6/7/2018 at 5:29 PM, /dev/null said: did they find any organic matter on Uranus? On? No. That's unhygienic. Word has it that it was recently packed full of organic matter, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUFFALOKIE Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Elizabeth Hurley just booked her flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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