Literally how could we? It’s a big rock, it has no ecosystem whatsoever, and any effort to live there someday would require environmentally sealed and radiation resistant structures. Degrading what it does to earth would require significantly altering it’s mass or orbit, which would require an amount of energy that isn’t in the cards for a long time to come even optimistically.
Trying to set the moon up as a military base or start an arms race to control the most of it, is kind of ruining it, but hey move fast and break things, is what led us to fuck things up here. Let’s go and try it on the nearest celestial object too. That’s the most logical thing to do.
And just because the technology and resource to manage it better isn’t here yet, why not start early? That works out just as planned every time on earth. It would be a piece of cake on the moon.
President Donald Trump has prioritized U.S. dominance in what one senior NASA official described to Politico as “the second space race.”
Literally how could we? It’s a big rock, it has no ecosystem whatsoever, and any effort to live there someday would require environmentally sealed and radiation resistant structures. Degrading what it does to earth would require significantly altering it’s mass or orbit, which would require an amount of energy that isn’t in the cards for a long time to come even optimistically.
someone could muck up the viewable side surface but it’d take forever to do that
it would be cool seeing a dot on it and knowing it’s a human structure that’s definitely doing energy in space wrong but still a cool endeavor
If a moon with city lights doesn’t awaken the sci-fi nerd in everyone then I don’t know what to say.
Let’s just agree to keep the dark side dark for telescopes.
Trying to set the moon up as a military base or start an arms race to control the most of it, is kind of ruining it, but hey move fast and break things, is what led us to fuck things up here. Let’s go and try it on the nearest celestial object too. That’s the most logical thing to do.
And just because the technology and resource to manage it better isn’t here yet, why not start early? That works out just as planned every time on earth. It would be a piece of cake on the moon.
You guys never learn and it shows.