...ir bare hands with sticks, stones, and strips of leather; so on Luna local resources should be put to use to make increasing levels of [[Solar Power|electric po
...to Luna without sufficient infrastructure will not make progress toward a human economic presence in outer space. It is no better than sending a mule in a
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...His new book, [[Return to the Moon 1]], is a detailed study of harvesting resources on the Moon. It is the basis for our plan.
...orld runs on oil. As of now, we have used up about half of all the oil the human race will ever use. We must find a new source of energy before the rest is
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...f human knowledge about Luna is much greater than my own, but the total of human ignorance about Luna, as a fraction of my own ignorance, approaches unity.
...pment? Individuals, organizations, corporations, and governments who have resources that they can afford to loose and who want to help create a prosperous and
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...a tubes in the identified areas and elsewhere. Smaller, but still large by human scale.<ref>Coombs, C.R., and B.R. Hawke, "A Search for Intact Lava Tubes on
== '''Resources (not used but potentially relevant)''' ==
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...outer space are like the ocean bottom. They are extremely inhospitable to human life. We can build an environment on Luna that is hospitable to people, bu
David Schrunk, Burton Sharpe, Bonnie Cooper, Madhu Thangavelu, ''The Moon, Resources, Future Development, and Settlement'', (Springer, Second Edition ,2008)
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...iscouraging it have moved from warning of starvation from lack of economic resources to causing it. If mankind fails to colonize extraterrestrial space, it wil
...ing the Earth, and the end of the human species without ever extending the human economy throughout the solar system.
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...to Mars or should public money enable a millennium of prosperity by moving human trade and industry into orbit on a wave of cheaply provided lunar materials
...ols made for people. Requiring a robot to work through the limitations of human form is likely to make it ineffective at industrial tasks. So far NASA has
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...e/increase the gene pool would be ostracized (examples from the history of human civilization: Homosexuality, Incest...)
...e non violent and have a non-gun background they could slow the process of human nature... --[[User:Jotagiraldez|Jose Giraldez]] 21:57, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
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...putting any satellites in orbit as it was seen as a wasteful diversion of resources. Korolov, who developed an acute sensitivity to political whims, focused o
...[Docking Procedures]], do a [[Space Walk]] ([[EVA]]), and lastly show that human beings were physically capable of [[Long Duration Spaceflight]]. At the be
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===Economic Geography: chemical, mineralogical, and topographic resources===
:The polar highlands do not offer all the resources needed for industrialization
21 KB (2,453 words) - 03:39, 18 October 2006
To produce a successful human colony on the moon, people must be able to imagine what the successful colo
Supplying humans from Earth will remain expensive. However, some of the resources for supporting people on the lunar surface can come from local industry. T
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;Maintain it safely: The miner must be easy to repair by human and robot teams.
===Available Resources===
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...oped nations have been using the lion’s share of the Earth’s non-renewable resources and continue to gravely stress the environment. This does not mean that it
Although many factors are involved, it is now clear that the actions of human beings are a major contributor to global warming. Action at the global lev
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...in the 0.1 psi Martian atmosphere, the technical problems might be within human abilities.
...settlements, Martian settlements need funding to survive. Sales of Martian resources to Lunar and other interests could be a major source of cash. Luna would g
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...p to be able to support human workers on the moon doing tasks suitable for human beings in vehicles with suitable life support systems and in buildings with
...ter mass drivers for space transportation. The more that extraterrestrial resources become available, the more they can be used to develop more advanced techno
32 KB (5,309 words) - 21:40, 6 March 2024
...things that can be done by robots, but a robot is never a substitute for a human in tasks that aren't redundant processes (such as maintaining robots in the
...ecial case. Every thing there was designed to maximize its convenience to human operation on site. In an ideal world the space station would have been des
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...um safe level (> 43ºC or 110ºF). The contours will detail safe levels for human and robot missions that cannot afford complex air conditioning. The local
In the spring of 2008 I am trying to raise money and resources for this project. If you are interested in any way, please contact [[Tom R
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...selection for the first, and quite likely only site for a long time, for a human settlement on the Moon. Later there will surely be many lunar settlements,
The bottom line is, if you want to see human beings back on the Moon in your lifetime, you had better figure out a way t
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...sons learned and do something more advanced? The fact that much of NASA's human space flight operations are for benefit of NASA employees, contractors, the
...be marketing that electricity for the biggest expansion of wealth that the human race has ever seen. Criminals trying to get some of that wealth by their p
114 KB (19,254 words) - 12:22, 9 April 2022
It will take a lot of community resources to support each person in the settlement. Just buying a week as a tourist
...be overlooked by Mr. Schmitt is that enforcing this idea is a violation of human rights. Any company practicing it will come under heavy political flak res
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