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Nice! Just the sheer amount of engineering challenges a permanent moon base would bring in gets me excited. Humanity would learn so much from this experience on

• blazespin 8y ago
  More exciting to me would be a fully automated moon base. Much more realistic and the advances it will help bring to robotics can be exploited for profit here on earth, a win for everyone. I don’t see how building a moonbase where people live really helps people on earth. For that matter doesn’t the low gravity leech calcium from your bones or something? Why would anyone even want to live on the moon. Sounds unpleasant. The trick will be to developing a delivery mechanism for dropping and installing semi-autonomous robots on the moon. Also, of course, we need robots capable of doing anything a person can do - even to the point of repairing other robots. Not talking self aware, just with the appropriate agility.
  • adrianN 8y ago
    It teaches us how to live on other planets, which is quite important for the long term survival of the human race.
    • blazespin 8y ago
      I find this line of thinking ridiculous or at least very elitist.. if we can’t figure out how to live on this one we’ll just go destroy another planet.
      • adrianN 8y ago
        It's pretty hard to destroy planets. I doubt that we could do it.
      • pravinva 8y ago
        Says the homo sapiens who appeared on earth barely a minute ago in the context of the planet's age