Colonise the moon?

[Watch Me Sink]

So crackhead Republican candidate for President Newt Gingrich announced that if he's president ( :rofl: ) by the end of his second term (Yep, we'll love him enough to re-elect him) the US will have a permanent settlement on the moon. This is besides the fact that any space program costs money, and the US is trillions in debt. Also, he thinks the private sector will be the future of the US space program.

Is this realistic? Would you like to have a colony on the moon? Who will alert Newt that he forgot to take his medication?

 

[Gimgak]

I love Newt, I'd love to make homosexual love to him in a totally heterosexual way.

 

[Guardian]

Technologically possible. Economically unfeasible. He's talking crap he wouldn't be able to back up the funding of. Without bankrupting us at least.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Technologically possible.

How? There would be no possible way to transport food and water fast enough from the earth to the moon. Also the mean temperature on the equator of the moon is 220 K. That's brutally cold and would require tons of fuel just to keep humans alive long term.

 

[Gimgak]

Technologically possible.

How? There would be no possible way to transport food and water fast enough from the earth to the moon. Also the mean temperature on the equator of the moon is 220 K. That's brutally cold and would require tons of fuel just to keep humans alive long term.

If there's a newt there's a way to screw women go to the moon

 

[Guardian]

Technologically possible.

How? There would be no possible way to transport food and water fast enough from the earth to the moon. Also the mean temperature on the equator of the moon is 220 K. That's brutally cold and would require tons of fuel just to keep humans alive long term.

Already been done with The ISS. We already have the technology to provide the insulated temperatures for the extreme heat and cold, which I know is about a 400 degree difference. Nuclear, fission, and solar (When it's facing the sun) power could provide all the needed power and fuel. All you would need to replenish is food and water. I'm not saying support 10,000 people until they find a way for that but a few dozen or more isn't too unreasonable if the money is there, which is why I said economics are the factor that would prevent it.

 

[White Panda]

Actually, most of that is possible but look at how capitalism works. Capitalism is based around supplying less for more. If we fully harnessed replenishable fuel sources some of the biggest corporations would go out of business and many of out government officials would be losing private funding, thus government officials push away government funding towards that technology, though not completely, there does need to be a bit of development. Then you have the big time investment banks and hedge funders who are doing most of the major investing in technologies.

Say you are an investment banker and are given the option to invest in new oil drilling technology or water based fission technologies, you would weigh your options. You would see that due to the limited supply of oil, you can make more off of it in such little amounts. With water based fission, the only thing you could profit off of is the technology, which yea you can make a lot of money off of that initially, but then your big bad client known as the automotive industry loses most of its current income and has a huge downfall while it researches, develops, produces, and implements water based fission engines.

So after selling the technology for water based fission, you are done. There is nothing after that. Sell water you say? Well with water based fission, it isn't specific to what kind of water it is, it can be fresh water, polluted water,nuclear waste water, salt water, anything. The way it works is it breaks down the hydrogen-oxygen molecules exclusively through a specific method.

The relevance behind all of the above is that in absolute reality, there is a possible way, but consumer based interest in colonizing the moon would seem to be minimal. What's the attraction in living on the moon? I understand the attraction to visiting it, but living there?

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Technologically possible.

How? There would be no possible way to transport food and water fast enough from the earth to the moon. Also the mean temperature on the equator of the moon is 220 K. That's brutally cold and would require tons of fuel just to keep humans alive long term.

If there's a newt there's a way to screw women go to the moon

You'll love to hear who just endorsed him. Hint: He loves his fair share of women too

Technologically possible.

How? There would be no possible way to transport food and water fast enough from the earth to the moon. Also the mean temperature on the equator of the moon is 220 K. That's brutally cold and would require tons of fuel just to keep humans alive long term.

Already been done with The ISS. We already have the technology to provide the insulated temperatures for the extreme heat and cold, which I know is about a 400 degree difference. Nuclear, fission, and solar (When it's facing the sun) power could provide all the needed power and fuel.

Ah, true. Forgot about the ISS.

 

[death180]

A base on the moon would really just be the ISS except... on the moon.

I'm a big space nerd so I am all for it, but economically it doesn't seem practical. Then again, if Gingrich does a good job, in 8 years the economy could be turning around. But I don't think he will have time to get it on the moon.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

A base on the moon would really just be the ISS except... on the moon.

What would justify moving the ISS to the moon, or setting up shop on the moon?

Newt, Rick, and Mittens need to learn that the Cold War and Space Race is over. There are few practical reasons to set up shop on the moon and the economical burden of doing so would far weigh out any benefits.

 

[Guardian]

Scientifically, maybe. But it wouldn't be with that intent at all, it's imperialistic at it's core. Economically it would break us.

 

[death180]

A base on the moon would really just be the ISS except... on the moon.

What would justify moving the ISS to the moon, or setting up shop on the moon?

Nothing, I'm just a space nerd and think it would be cool.

 

[Deleted member 4320]

Living on the moon would not work, for obvious reasons...

 

[Jake]

Those reasons are?

 

[InfiniteJest]

Let's colonize some jobs first, yes?

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Let's colonize some jobs first, yes?

That would be logical thinking. Logical thinking and Newt Gingrich are mutually exclusive. :yes:

 

[Gimgak]

Let's colonize some jobs first, yes?

Think of all the jobs colonizing the moon would give us...
Space Police Men
Space Fire Men
Space Teachers
Space Plumbers
Space Pimps
Space Mechanics
Space anything! It's genius and doubles our current # of professions!

 

[Jake]

Troll legend

 

[Nebulous]

We should colorize the moon. I'd like for it to be green. 😛

 

[IAAM Radio]

Steve Hawkins - Father of Modern Day Quantum Physics states it best when he said mankind better find a new place to live in the next 100 or so years if it fails to change its ways on planet earth. He is right.

The moon will be a test bed then we will push out to more earth like planets. All in all space is not dead for the U.S. let's just call it a corporate restructure.