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For use by the people who will live there? It'd be easier than building a habitat on or in the asteroid, although that will likely happen at some point as well.
by dwaltrip 9y ago
For use by the people who will live there? It'd be easier than building a habitat on or in the asteroid, although that will likely happen at some point as well.
- valuearb 9y agoIt’s far easier to live in asteroids than the moon. The energy cost of moving them is enormous, and you can develop them without paying the cost of the moons gravity well.
- dwaltrip 9y agoThat may be the case. However, for tourism (which will probably be important for a lunar economy), travel time will be a major consideration. The moon wins hands down on that aspect. Also, I imagine there will be a space elevator on the moon which reduces the gravity cost substantially. I believe it is possible to build one with today's technology (unlike on Earth).
- Hextinium 9y agoSpace elevators on the Moon are 100% possible with Kevlar and steel. The additional advantage to a space elevator is that at a point you get past escape velocity. This means if you let go you would escape the Moon without any propellant and have a free return. This can be capitalized on every month to have a large amount of supplies shipped from the Moon to Earth with half of their fuel cost paid by electricity instead of rockets.
- marcosdumay 9y agoIf you are going to move an asteroid, you can get it on a much better position than the Moon. About the space elevator, anything you can imagine on the Moon would be easier on an asteroid.
- dwaltrip 9y agoExcept for moon tourism.