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whats the point of living on the moon if you cant harvest or breed to live on, most of the consume stuff to stay alive will be imported from earth....
unless you have a hydroplant setupsmoke weed and space jump everyday
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/...ter-colonists/
This apparent hole in the moon is like a skylight, a vertical cave 213 feet across and some 262 to 289 feet deep. It is thought to be a collapsed lava tube. The inset shows close-up of the boxed area.
The moon may not be made of Swiss cheese, but it appears to have at least one deep hole, a vertical skylight that could serve as a protective lunar base for future astronauts.
"We discovered a vertical hole on the moon," an international team of scientists recently announced.
The gaping, dark pit on the near side of the moon is as big as a city block and deep as a modest skyscraper. It is thought to be a collapsed lava tube, created perhaps billions of years ago when the moon was warmer and volcanically active. The moon, overall, is more than 4 billion years old.
The discovery, detailed in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in October, was made using data from the moon-orbiting Japanese SELENE spacecraft. It was not widely reported at the time, and the journal announced it today. The work was led by Junichi Haruyama of the Japanese Space Agency JAXA.
Safe haven?
Recent discoveries of water and water ice on the moon hold promise that astronauts could journey back and stay for longer periods, perhaps even establish lunar colonies. But a remaining hurdle to setting up a permanent moon base is devising shelter to shield colonists from radiation and meteor strikes that befall the gray world, which has no protective atmosphere or magnetosphere.
"Because lava tubes are sheltered from the harsh environment on the moon's surface, such tubes could one day be useful for lunar bases," the scientists said in a statement.
Similar Mars caves have found and also envisioned as potential shelters, should humans desire to return to a sort of modernized cave man existence.
Deep and wide
The hole is nearly circular, about 213 feet across with a depth of 262 to 289 feet. Here's how scientists think it was created:
Flowing lava long ago left a tunnel with a roof of somewhat fragile, cooled lava, which later collapsed. The hole is in the Marius Hills region, an area known to have been volcanic.
"Lava tubes, underground cave-like channels through which lava once flowed, are commonly found on Earth," the researchers point out. Scientists have long debated whether the moon might have such caves, but no firm evidence had been found until now.
whats the point of living on the moon if you cant harvest or breed to live on, most of the consume stuff to stay alive will be imported from earth....
unless you have a hydroplant setup
I've always found this picture pretty ing scary.
How about finishing that hole in NY made during 9/11?
Your right!
Use it as a launching/refueling station to get further in to space, perhaps Mars. It takes much less fuel to launch from the moon than from earth, obviously. It would make sense.whats the point of living on the moon if you cant harvest or breed to live on, most of the consume stuff to stay alive will be imported from earth....
unless you have a hydroplant setup
...or use it as a base to reseed life on Earth after a mass extinction...
Or maybe use it to host your FTP server?
it's just the delusional composure by some hypocritical willy scientists IMHO. those re s live on such stuffs delivering us some seemingly enlightening discoveries and alluring us to consider true their mirages they themselves don't even believe exist, like the new captured matrix on moon. Plus it's from foxnews and we know how trustworthy they are, honestly the brian&judge is the only show worth listening on foxnews.
Do you want the CNN link too?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/0...ole/index.html
CNN) -- Building a home near a moon crater or a lunar sea may sound nice, but moon colonists might have a much better chance of survival if they just lived in a hole.
That's the message sent by an international team of scientists who say they've discovered a protected lunar "lava tube" -- a deep, giant hole -- that might be well suited for a moon colony or a lunar base.
The vertical hole, in the volcanic Marius Hills region on the moon's near side, is 213 feet wide and is estimated to be more than 260 feet deep, according to findings published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
More important, the scientists say, the hole is protected from the moon's harsh temperatures and meteorite strikes by a thin sheet of lava. That makes the tube a good candidate for further exploration or possible inhabitation, the article says.
"Lunar lava tubes are a potentially important location for a future lunar base, whether for local exploration and development, or as an outpost to serve exploration beyond the Moon," writes the team, led by Junichi Haruyama, a senior researcher with the Japanese space agency JAXA.
"Any intact lava tube could serve as a shelter from the severe environment of the lunar surface, with its meteorite impacts, high-energy UV radiation and energetic particles, and extreme diurnal temperature variations."
Lava tubes have previously been discovered on the moon, but the scientists say the new hole is notable because of its lava shield and because it does not appear to be prone to collapse.
Lave tubes exist on Earth and also have been found on Mars. The cylinder-shaped caverns can be carved out by lava flows, volcanic eruptions, seismic activity or ground collapse resulting from meteoroid strikes.
The scientists used high-resolution images from a Japanese moon orbiter called SELENE to discover this lunar lava tube. The findings were published November 12, but they grabbed the attention of the public this week.
NASA is reportedly working on plans to return to the moon by 2020 and to set up a temporary lunar colony by 2025 as part of the Constellation Program. Funding for the program, however, remains somewhat in question.
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