This is typical transhumanist nonsense, redolent of billionaires who are totally disconnected from the reality of regular people on this planet. The last cost

This is typical transhumanist nonsense, redolent of billionaires who are totally disconnected from the reality of regular people on this planet. The last cost estimate I saw for sending something to the moon was on the order of $50K per kilogram. Assuming people could go to the moon[0], that means water would cost $50K per kilo, food would have this cost, etc. The economics of people residing on the moon are beyond comprehension. Creating a "lunar lander" (and supposedly getting government funds for doing so) isn't going to fix that. [0] I'm not convinced we can make this assumption. The Van Allen radiation belts could nuke everyone who makes the journey and NASA hasn't explained how we would shield people from that.