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If you want to bring 8B people on the moon, you may as well transport some carbon. The Apollo took 51hrs to get there, unmanned missions took 4-5 days
by jokethrowaway 5y ago
If you want to bring 8B people on the moon, you may as well transport some carbon.
The Apollo took 51hrs to get there, unmanned missions took 4-5 days
- jacquesm 5y agoIf you are bringing 8B people to the moon you are transporting some carbon. And O2, and H2, and a bunch of calcium and various spore elements such as some iron and manganese, etc.
- vermilingua 5y agoI don't think disassembling colonists is going to be a very popular way to source carbon. /s
- jacquesm 5y agoUnless they live forever this will solve itself. At a guess most of the carbon and water that you are consuming has been re-cycled a couple of times already, and I'm pretty sure that at least some of that was part of a human configuration at some point in its past.
- Kichererbsen 5y agopretty sure sooner or later you're going to have to figure out what to do with defunct colonists anyway and disassembling them is not the worst option...
- sneak 5y agoDepends on what kind of colonists, tbh. Half the books I've read about lunar colonies would probably disagree. :D
- ant6n 5y ago"Eat the inners!" ?