i always thought it was fairly common knowledge that we've had the technology to do things like this for a long time, but it was a lack of funding/drive on the governmental side to actually make it happen.
hopefully with the cost of lifting material falling and the advent of the BFR (which if actualized will completely revolutionize the lifting industry) the cost of putting that much mass in space will drop enough to make projects like this worth it.
This is one of the big things I've disagreed with Musk on when it some to space flight. A moon mission would allow the testing of many of the technologies needed for a Mars mission.
I'd live on the moon. Shit sounds awesome.
Again with the misunderstanding of space elevators though, you just can't build a space elevator on a body that is tidally locked. There is no equivalent to "geostationary" orbit around the moon
I've always wondered how being the first extra-terrestrial child would end up. You're not just anybody after all, you're the first person of a non-Earth origin. You'd be a media darling for a huge portion of your life, and your entire body would grow differently to accommodate the environment (muscle mass changes that astronauts experience, etc. but that's your entire life). Would you be considered healthy or would complications arise from such a thing?
Moon colonisation is a really cool idea but it has some really interesting questions.
Stop dreaming about Mars and get on this. Living on the moon would be rad as fuck.
But wait, I thought that living in space/on the moon was a terrible idea because your body needs gravity to shape its bones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTL_sJycQAA
you would be incredibly unhealthy, to the point that it might even constitute child abuse to deliberately raise a kid in space without perfectly simulated Earth conditions. it would basically be like if you broke their bones and kicked them in the head on a weekly basis.
you can have Mars and the Moon. I want
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag
So if the couple uploaded a video of them making lunar babies will it be the first actual alien porn
Imagine if the conception of the first human born in space was recorded.
Imagine being the first guy to do a zero-g cumshot.
Imagine the clean up.
But will there be demons?
No demons no way
Make em robots with human brains in them!
I feel like it'd also be easier to get power plants setup on the moon beyond just solar panels. (Yes I'm going back to thorium fission power).
Its not like there's a biosphere to accidentally contaminate, radiation is already a hazard (except when in the Earth's magnetotail), fuel is readily available and the people living on it wouldn't be silly nimbys.
I doubt anything is going to happen with a moonbase right up until someone works out how to use Helium3 to produce shitloads of power.
At that point it would be like a goldrush, "hey want this source of limitless power? Go get it"
That being said people are still spooked by the evil green magic glowy sticks so who fucking knows when that will happen.
Let's be real, someone has already done this. Veeeery few people are gonna go months w/o nutting.
They don't even need to develop a small lightweight reactor for space use, Nasa already did it.
NASA tests 10kW nuclear reactor for space missions
it wouldn't be real colonialism without a brutal human cost now, would it?
honestly that'd be an interesting scenario for sci-fi; extraterrestrial breeding is touted as some huge leap forward but great efforts are made to cover up the immense suffering caused by the inevitable horrorshow of human development in low gravity environments
That sounds like someone whose soul has been weighed down by gravity would say.
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The first few episodes of the show The Expanse bring this up, tackling things like how many people born in the (asteroid) Belt have bone and muscle deformities, particularly the poor ones who were unable to afford supplements that are designed to counteract that as a child; the concept of "long-bones", which is where some Belters literally have elongated bones because of the lower gravity in the Belt resulting in less stress shortening their length; and how the gravity of Earth is a crushing phenomenon for people who lived all their lives in the Belt.
Unfortunately, most all of that is tossed out and never mentioned again after the first few episodes. The gravity things play an exceptionally minor role in later episodes with Mars, but it is hugely downplayed and effectively hand-waved away in comparison to the impact it has on the first few episodes.
That's kinda what I miss about Miller's noir/detective part of the show. You saw a lot more of general life in the belt.
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