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Hi guys!
With the advances in machine technology and remote control systems we could easily construct and send a self-contained 'auger' module which can drill into the lunar surface/rock and mound the 'spoil' around itself and so bury itself. The module would have incorporated habitat sections around the main auger frame so that all will be ready (and protected from radiation) for humans to follow with 'start-up' seed materials/provisions to allow establishment of self-sustaining colony.
If the poles have water in craters (and/or if water chemically bound in the lunar underground minerals) then solar power units will provide all the energy needed for reprocessing waste (splitting waste water to O2 for breathing/and H2 for fuel before using such re-combined water for drinking, irrigating food crops etc. Also, CO2 can be re-processed by pyrolitic-catalytic methods back to Carbon and O2).
Only automation and remote control and self-sustaining strategies using solar power and chemistry will make the Moon 'dream' colony a feasible reality.
And let's not forget, eventually some catastrophe (comet strike, runaway greenhouse effect, super volcanism etc etc) may leave us no choice but to temporarily leave this planet (those who can). The smart ones will prepare sooner rather than later for such eventuality. But then, who said the human race was smart? Just look at us around the globe all going in all different directions like chooks with their heads chopped off!
Someone will have to lead us chooks out of the henhouse when the sky does eventually 'fall in'. Good luck to those brave new chooks, whoever they turn out to be!
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Hi guys!
With the advances in machine technology and remote control systems we could easily construct and send a self-contained 'auger' module which can drill into the lunar surface/rock and mound the 'spoil' around itself and so bury itself. The module would have incorporated habitat sections around the main auger frame so that all will be ready (and protected from radiation) for humans to follow with 'start-up' seed materials/provisions to allow establishment of self-sustaining colony.
If the poles have water in craters (and/or if water chemically bound in the lunar underground minerals) then solar power units will provide all the energy needed for reprocessing waste (splitting waste water to O2 for breathing/and H2 for fuel before using such re-combined water for drinking, irrigating food crops etc. Also, CO2 can be re-processed by pyrolitic-catalytic methods back to Carbon and O2).
Only automation and remote control and self-sustaining strategies using solar power and chemistry will make the Moon 'dream' colony a feasible reality.
And let's not forget, eventually some catastrophe (comet strike, runaway greenhouse effect, super volcanism etc etc) may leave us no choice but to temporarily leave this planet (those who can). The smart ones will prepare sooner rather than later for such eventuality. But then, who said the human race was smart? Just look at us around the globe all going in all different directions like chooks with their heads chopped off!
Someone will have to lead us chooks out of the henhouse when the sky does eventually 'fall in'. Good luck to those brave new chooks, whoever they turn out to be!
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