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Moonbase when?
by 32gbsd 3y ago
Moonbase when?
- yellowapple 3y agoaeiou
- dafugg 3y agoJohn Madden
- gnarbarian 3y agojust in case people don't get the joke https://youtu.be/Hv6RbEOlqRo https://youtu.be/Hv6RbEOlqRo
- yellowapple 3y agoThe in-game chat's support for music will never cease to amaze me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNPKXfb3rws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNPKXfb3rws
- evandale 3y agoI thought I've seen every 10+ year video on youtube already but you've proven me wrong. Thanks for this!
- sublinear 3y agoerbrbrbrbr
- hammyhavoc 3y agoFor what exactly?
- fnordpiglet 3y agoIntroverts
- gnarbarian 3y agoprison mining colony. but seriously, it could be used as a manufacturing and industrial hub for deep space operations like asteroid mining. think about it like this. if we can manufacture things on the moon we can launch things for almost nothing into both earth orbit and the outer solar system due to how the orbital mechanics work. this means we can build a million probes and send them all over the solar system, manufacture generation ships, permanent self sustaining space based habitats. a new era of expansion, exploration, and discovery.
- jiggawatts 3y agoTurtles all the way down. “Why do we need a space station?” “As practice for getting to the Moon!” “What can we do on the Moon?” “Build spaceships for getting to the asteroid belt!” “Why do we need to get to the asteroid belt?” “So we can make components for the Mars colonies!” “Why do we need a Mars colony?” …
- SanderNL 3y agoWhy do we need to do anything? We are the grey goo of the universe. Expansion is our thing.
- once_inc 3y agoSo long as we don't come into contact with the black goo of the universe, I am more than happy doing what we do.
- nathancahill 3y agoIf you look at it that way, you can use the same logic here on Earth. Why do you go to work in the morning? I know how these question chains go, I have a young son.
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- InCityDreams 3y agoSet up new places to fight over.
- hammyhavoc 3y ago"Space: the latest frontier."
- fsloth 3y agoFor expanding humanitys footprint to non-terrestrial areas. In a sustainable way. The only way to do that is learn bit by bit what works and what not. It's too complex problem to completely tackle by preplanning (unless we reach singularity first and we figure out it's actually possible to design robust life sustaining systems without prototyping).
- hulitu 3y agoWhen they find oil, or cobalt, or rare earths. We have enough water on earth, we don't need the one on the moon. /s You might remember, Columbus did not go to America for a vacation.
- ornitorrincos 3y agono, he went to india to wrestle the spice commerce from the portuguese, finding a different continent was not on his plans
- sclarisse 3y agoWith the ultimate goal of financing a new crusade, and retaking Jerusalem for Christendom. No, really. All the profits and the gold he was obsessed with? They weren’t for him, they were for the crusade; meanwhile he was spending much of the time dressing like a monk.
- HopenHeyHi 3y agoFrankly, I would rather go to the moon for a vacation than America. Space tourism would easily pay for a moon base.
- hn_go_brrrrr 3y agoNo, he went to get a promotion. He should have launched a chat app instead.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoSlavery and bloodsport, but neither will be found on the moon so your point stands.
- yellowapple 3y agoWe'll just have to make our own, then.
- maxcan 3y agoActually moon water can be quite valuable. Because it requires so much less energy to escape lunar gravity, if you have water, and if you can split it into hydrogen and oxygen, you can make a very effective gas station for rockets going to Mars and further and get a little respite from the tyranny of the rocket equation.
- LoveMortuus 3y agoAs soon as there is enough of a market interest in anything that can be obtained from Moon and can't really be faked on Earth! I have faith in capitalism, at least in this regard.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoWell SpaceX is very close to launching the big rocket, which if successful will totally change the economics of space exploration and settlement. Current launch date is no earlier than April 17th, which is quite soon!
- wincy 3y agoI’m sure Elon really wants the big rocket to go on 4/20 if at all possible.
- quickthrower2 3y agoYou can also extract a lot of h2o from what goes down the porcelain
- jrussino 3y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/artemisnasa/comments/12jox39/timeline_of_artemis_missions_until_the_2040s/ https://www.reddit.com/r/artemisnasa/comments/12jox39/timeli... Does the lunar gateway meet your definition of a "moonbase"? Because if you mean "long-term human presence at the moon" (at least, in the same sense in which we have "long-term human presence in orbit" with the ISS) then the answer seems to be "possibly as soon as the early 2030's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway