Would you go and live on the moon?
 

If you were given the opportunity to become a test group of people to start living life on the moon, would you go ahead and board the rocket?


I have always wondered why they havent built a massive glass tank and then started taking plants up there and creating a new eco system.


So, would you be willing to go?



Can you see yourself living on another planet some day?

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I would go, though It would probably just be my ashes at this stage. At least I could feel that I had been useful even if it was only to bulk up the growing medium that would be needed to a grow something useful. :)

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As a young, fit and single man, I would have gone in a flash. These days I have responsibilities. I’d go as a tourist, once it’s reasonably safe, but my pioneering days are long past!

Because it’s very expensive and also difficult, as this recent experiment shows:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61434295

No, because we won’t be living on other planets in my lifetime. That’s not to say there won’t be outposts on the moon and Mars within the next 20 years; I think there will be. But they will be living there only in the same sense anyone lives in Antarctica. Strictly for research and by appointment only. Properly living on other planets entails people being free to emigrate and set up a home and a livelihood there. Once pioneer emigration is the decision of private citizens rather than at the invitation of governments or mega-corporations, then people will begin to really ‘live’ on Mars. I think we’re many decades away from that.

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It was all meant to happen by 1999

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That's a long commute :)

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My answer is a definite no. I might be prepared to visit (I definitely would have when younger) but to live? No, I'd be bored stiff after a few days.

Did you know they don't even have broadband up there? :D

We need to find a habitable planet to live on, but as time goes on, this appears to be less, rather than more likely. We haven't even found one yet and when we do, it'll probably take multiple lifetimes to get there.

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I was put off when they said it lacked atmosphere.

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I would love to go on and live on the moon. If you would like a flavour of what it is like then you should watch For All Mankind.

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No, my allotment wouldn't work out very well on the Moon and Sainsburys don't deliver.

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No. Why dream about sth that is not comfortable for you if you have such amazing nature here?

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I think you would find the reality rather different! After about three days, I think you would be utterly bored.

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If you want to live in a barren wasteland just hang around the UK after another 50 years of trickle up economics has siphoned off our national assets into tax havens. It'll be like the moon but with rain and gravity.

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and flags .. and carriages running around with just a hat in it :)

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Live ? No.

Visit or Holiday ? Yes.

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I would like to open a pub on there, But, I don't think the atmosphere would be great. :D

I dunno if I would go or not........... Perhaps.....

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Well I wonder what the WWII German Moonbase have to say











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I think I'd get very bored as I like the varied places to go to. I enjoy the beach, sand dunes, mountains, rivers, etc.


Driving a moon buggy would be good fun though.

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:D

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Wasn't that when the Millenium bug was going to start the end of the world?

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As I recall, all the nuclear waste stored on the moon was supposed to explode on 13th Sept 1999, and blast the moon out of orbit. :D

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Imagine if it did blow up....The nights would be a lot darker, the tides would be a lot different, seasons would begin to change! But I think we would survive.

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I doubt we'd survive if the remains of the Moon crashed into us, which given the gravitational pull is likely...

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No way, Would not take a chance

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We would get no tides

I asked Brian Cox a question on Radio 5 Live, Are the Earth and Moon a Binary system, he said sort of.

Its due to the fact that the rules that said Pluto wasn't a planet made the moon one.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startsw...h=151010602b8d

https://www.quora.com/Someone-said-E...around-the-sun

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The moon is not the sole cause of tides (the sun is also involved).
So thats not actually true, we would still have tides, they would just be a lot smaller.

(Estimated to be about 1/3 of what they are now).

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/educat...s02_cause.html

I wouldnt be surprised if there was life under the surface there! (A big base)

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I’m not sure there’s life on this planet.

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You've been watching too many cheap American alien programmes!

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What we need to find is a lifeform that breathes in Carbon Dioxide and exhales Oxygen.
Once we have got hold of those then we breed them and they will help in securing a breathable planet.

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Errr

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2022/06/1.jpg

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If only we knew of such an organism, I fear that even if such an organism existed we'd just exploit and harvest it for our own short term needs and greed, might be best we don't find this mysterious mythical lifeform for their sake

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LOL I completly forgot about trees!


So in that case why are we not taking trees up to the moon and planting them there?

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:doh:

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You can achieve the same oxygenating effect with tanks of algae much as happened on the early Earth when the atmosphere had little or no Oxygen.

Easier than trying to grow a tree on the moon.

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Ummm, your kidding, right ?

There is no CO2, or indeed any atmosphere of any sort, on the moon.

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There's a lot of frozen CO2 on the moon

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-carbon...cold-moon.html

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I'm sure there is, just like there is a lot of frozen water on Mars.

Neither is of much use, frozen.

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No chance, my feet are staying firmly on terra firma, being very claustrophobic the very thought of being strapped/trapped in any conveyance for days or weeks traveling to the moon is completely alien to me. :shocked:

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I've changed my mind since earlier in the thread, i'd go.
It's got to be an improvement on the UK in 2022. :)

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Mmm you've got a point Mr K

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Good point.

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But would the moon be part of the EU?!!


I think the idea of "the tree" was to convert CO2 produced by people back to O2 rather than seeding the moon because as pointed out there is no appreciable atmosphere there of any sort. But trees and other plants use O2 at night when there is no sunlight so algae in tanks in permanent sunlight maybe the solution, could also use the algae for protein source maybe.


I still wouldn't go.

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Just thinking in a slightly crazy way here but if we managed to hollow out the moon then maybe we could live inside it. A bit like a huge bottle. We'd fill it with Oxygen and then put a lid on it.


Even more claustrophobic lol.

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Already been done by the Clangers. They used dustbin lids on the crater entrances. They seemed happy enough I must say :)

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2022/06/3.jpg

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IIRC thats during the day, at night they do the reverse.


I do recall QI saying that plankton give us more O2 than trees!

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These creatures were ahead of their time!

I think this is proof if they can live on the moon then so can we.
Although we may turn pink.

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The loss of opposable thumbs may be awkward. Same with the loss of ability to speak though maybe we could move politicians to the moon with out much loss of clarity.


Actually that could be a good idea. Move all parliaments to the moon. They would have to be treat us earth-bound "plebs" really carefully if they want supplies to be delivered and deselection to be less brief and permanent that would be if the deselected one can be brought back down to earth. You would also have to be really sure that you wanted to be elected too.

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I like your thinking Tweetie. :tu:

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If our Politians are going to be housed on the moon I withdraw my ealier comments as there is no way I would want to help geoform an area that was comtaminated by so much garbage..

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No we'd stick them on Mercury's hot side (along with investment bankers) :)

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Actually if they did get isolated on the moon I bet a lot of telescopes would be bought. Would be amusing watching the blighters running around and having to co-operate to survive. :)

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They'd all be having parties draining all the resources we sent to them.

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Only for as long as we send them. Country doing badly - survival rations, doing well something extra. And only at certain intervals, so they could binge but then go hungry until the next supply run.

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You may wish to read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A Heinlein…