What would a colony on the Moon look like? – People could be living in lunar ‘houses’ by 2040, says Nasa
https://theweek.com/science/what-would-a-colony-on-the-moon-look-like
What would a colony on the Moon look like? – People could be living in lunar ‘houses’ by 2040, says Nasa
https://theweek.com/science/what-would-a-colony-on-the-moon-look-like
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From the article
>A businessman has revealed plans to colonise the Moon by 2063 and transform humanity into a “multi-planet species”.
>Argentinian-American entrepreneur Guillermo Söhnlein told[ The Independent ](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/oceangate-project-moon-titanic-sub-b2572691.html)that we would “begin to see ourselves not just as citizens of one country or another, but as inhabitants of Mearth”, the name coined for a hypothetical Earth-Moon civilisation.
>Ambitions of this sort have been around for a while: in the 1980s, [“The Usborne Book of the Future”](https://usborne.com/gb/blog/post/usborne-news/the-book-that-changed-my-life-usborne-s-book-of-the-future) forecast a city on the [Moon](https://theweek.com/science/why-the-moon-is-getting-a-new-time-zone), where people would work at consoles in vast domes connected by pressurised underground passageways. But following huge advances in technology, such a settlement might now look very different.
The space station isn’t even in space. Slow down there nasa
“Mearth”? These fucking billionaires are the worst. JFC.
Oh man, I swear I read 2030 ten years ago. I’m guessing by 2030 they’ll be saying 2050.
I’m not an expert, but wouldn’t radiation quickly kill long-term human residents on the moon?
Didn’t nasa say that the first people would be on Mars by 2024?
No one can stay on the moon indefinitely as is. Mostly because their muscles and bone density will decrease fairly quickly due to the Moon’s low gravity. People would have to rotate out with other astronauts to avoid the detrimental effects of being in low gravity for long periods. The only way around that would be if someone figured out how to create artificial gravity.
We’re whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon. But there ain’t no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune” 🎶🎵🎶🎵
How about finishing that extra lane for the freeway ramp by my house first. It’s been 3 years now and it’s still not close to finished. Also, those look exactly like the moonbase illustrations I saw in “any day now” articles when I was a kid 40 years ago.
I feel like any serious long term housing on the moon or Mars need to be build under ground. Without a thick atmosphere to burn them up, tiny space rocks punching holes in your artificial environment and letting out all your air is going to be a concern.
If we’ve learned anything from For All Mankind it’s that M16s work on the moon. So I can see how this would pan out.
First it was 2020, then 2030 and now 2040. They just keep pushing it further down the line lol
How could this be feasible from a resource perspective? All of the effort to have to constantly send resources to the moon for what purpose? What can be gained from living on the moon?
How do you shoot pool if the balls never fall into the pocket. Or a bowl if the pins never fall down?
Spoiler: They won’t be living on the Moon by 2040. Maybe 2140, but this just sounds like muh flying cars from the 50’s.
Caves (or covered outcroppings) most likely. Most of the material needs to be sourced from the moon itself.
Even with substantial shielding, a person is likely to have a massively increased yearly dosage of radiation, each week, month, or year they spend on the moon.
Earth *really* is the most perfect place for humans to live.
The biggest question remains, WHY would people want to stay on the moon?
Read A City On Mars by the Weirnersmith‘s I will not comment further
I dont know shit about shit but I’m just saying if I lived on the moon I would take bribes from large corporations to dig out ads large enough for the earth to see.
Water, sewage, food, and oxygen. They haven’t solved that, so it’s not happening. It’s too expensive to ship water and oxygen to the moon. They could send freeze-dried meals, but you still need water and oxygen. Where does your waste go? How do you stay clean? How do you wipe your ass?
We can hardly build houses on Earth, we definitely won’t be building them on the moon anytime soon.
It will probably have to be underground to protect from solar radiation and the tremendous heat. The surface temperature can hit 250 degrees Fahrenheit in the daytime.
I figured that was one of the reasons Musk started the Boring Company.
Apparently, the moons current inhabitants have finally given the US permission to return after 40 years…
[This came to mind as soon as I read the post title. ](https://youtu.be/NyPx64LjdJM?si=JpnBR39YCzuclFmx)
Ultrarich motherfuckers would do absolutely anything to abscond from their responsibilities of saving earth. You cant fucking live in moon or mars until they are terraformed and that could take a few thousand years. Earth is the best we got and we have fucked it up and just too dumb to see it
If I was a billionaire I would send the first fleet and send all the convicts to the Mars colony. I will change the name of mars to Ostralya.
NASA is a failure and a front. It’s China that will dominate infrastructure and space-tech by the 2030s. Private corporations will dominate Space tourism and space mining. The Chinese State will by the SpaceX of the 2040s. America in fact is pretty poor in Space engineering outside of SpaceX and Blue Origin.
[china just found graphene on the dark side of the moon.](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3268064/graphene-find-chinas-change-5-moon-samples-challenges-lunar-origin-theory)
Pretty sure I’d rather stay here than live in some rudimentary hut on the moon.
I don’t know if I’d feel very comfortable living in a place where forgetting my ”hat” before leaving the house would get me insta-killed.
LMAO you ain’t going to the moon much less setting up homes there. Good god man.This shit is hilarious. Endless canceled missions just to get to the moon from 1972 on. Yeah no.
They predicted we’d be living on the moon by 2000, back in 1970.
Don’t know why they put this sort of twaddle out there.
“Transform humanity into a multi plantetary species”
The moon is not a planet lol.
What on Mearth are these billionaires up to?
No…they wont be lol. Space exploration is one of the biggest scams inn existence
“People” could be living there by 2040? When they say “people” do they mean astronauts? Because currently, it’s estimated to cost around $7.35 billion annually just to operate a lunar base once it’s built. Maintaining a home is probably a lot less. So like, $1 billion annually? $500 million annually? People can barely afford to buy a house on earth.
It took nearly 20 years and $10 billion dollars to put the James Webb telescope up.
So no way 😂
It’s a death trap other than FOR NOW we could send humans there for short periods to study the geology or MAYBE setup and maintain a big ass telescope. Beside that you don’t want ppl living there long because the .1g gravity is horrible for them.
Long term living on the moon is absolutely not practical. These stores are meant to sell the public on a the grand idea of space expansion, but they’re really just talking about tiny short term outposts for specific reasons, not like ppl who live on the moon for years or decades at a time.
Since gravity is such a fundamental force I doubt that will change much and then robots will be much more suited to most of these jobs since they aren’t so specifically evolved for just Earth.
Even Mars is probably too low gravity for humans to expand to, it would also just be a short term research outpost. At least until WAY into the future from now when we have tech that seems like total science fiction now, but I don’t think warp drives or artificial gravity like Star Trek has will ever be a thing, so we are fairly limited where we can expand to without extreme genetic engineering or ridiculously better propulsion and the ability to find Earth like planets OR perhaps the most likely is near infinite robotic production that would allow cost effective things like building a planet.
Like it’s probably going to wind up faster to build a planet than find another Earth, because space is so… full of space and nothing really goes that fast compared to the distances. It seems impossible, but so would the Pyramids until the mass labor was employed long enough to get results.
Even if it took you 300 years to build a planet with trillions of robot drones/workers, that may very well be faster than we can find and get to an Earth like planet.
If we can’t have solid communities that can live underground with minimal support, we can’t live on another planet. Done.
2040? No way. They won’t be breaking ground by 2040. This has at least 20 years of writing dreams on coffee-stained napkins before getting engineers involved. Then there’s at least another thirty years of feasibility studies, site surveys, risk analysis, and design testing, before they get around to getting a construction site set up. And who is gonna fund it? No investors, for sure. It’d be too risky without some sort of industry as an end goal to drive profits.
Look at ITER, it started in 1985, and broke ground in 2013. It’s not gonna be complete in this decade, and that’s without having to use space ships, suits, and having to redefine construction techniques.
> A businessman has revealed
That he’s not a scientist. Got it.