space.com — When humans finally set up residence on the moon, our lives there will look very different. Since many of the tried and true tools we use on Earth will be impossible to carry along, some scientists are hard at work inventing from scratch the machines we'll need to make life possible on the moon.
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psibladezxSep 3, 2008
If they don't know how to deal with deadly radiation now... how did they deal with it in 1969?
rogerstrongSep 3, 2008
Bake the lunar regolith, and you get a surprising amount of water. You can get hydrogen from that.It does have a wealth of minerals. I prefer to think of it as a better home for earth's industry - with Mars being for colonization.
rogerstrongSep 3, 2008
Radiation isn't magic. They did know how to deal with it - short-term visits only, line the spacecraft walls with equipment for extra shielding, etc.As for long-term stays, the idea of using regolith as shielding from radiation has been around for decades. I doubt it was a new idea even then - even illustrations of moon bases from back then tended to show them covered in regolith.