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How long do you think it would have taken to get a permanent moon presence if we kept up Apollo level funding indefinitely with that as the main goal? And sinc
by Dylan16807 1y ago
How long do you think it would have taken to get a permanent moon presence if we kept up Apollo level funding indefinitely with that as the main goal? And since I only said "plausible", let's go with 80th-90th percentile best case scenario.
Even if technological progress stopped we could have launched enough parts to assemble a colony structure.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoI'm not sure we would have one today. Maybe a token presence but definitely not the moon colony dreams of the 60s.
- Dylan16807 1y agoA token colony is still a colony. If you meant a specific size I wish you had been more clear upfront.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoA colony typically refers to a place where people permanently live and are colonising, e.g. setting up state structures, having children, etc.
- Dylan16807 1y agoWhich could be 20 permanent residents and 10 non-permanent slots. I don't think that requires too grand of a structure.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoThis is splitting hairs, but I was envisaging something more like the ISS but on the moon. A far cry from the 50s/60s dream of a grill and white picket fence on the moon.