Science Engineered Timber Lunar Base proposed for 2035

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In ground breaking news for the timber industry, the first non earth mass timber building is in its planning stages. The design brief is for a semi permanent base to house astronauts living and working on the moon for up to 12 months at a time.

The site is a naturally occurring cave which will shield the building’s inhabitants from the sun’s radiation.

As the gravity on the moon is significantly less than on earth, the size of the space craft required to escape the moon’s gravity for the return trip is also smaller. Usually excess space ship parts are jettisoned in space to be burned up in earth’s atmosphere.

Architects are collaborating with space agency engineers to develop a mass timber space craft designed to be partially dismantled leaving its lower stages on the moon to be reconstructed into the lunar habitat.

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[WonderWino]

I misread party of the title as "lunar timber" and got images of a tree farm on da moon.

That would be cool. Okay bye.

Lunar lumber is absolutely necessary to build shelving in those lunar caves used to properly age nulls precious moon cheese

That said, imagine they somehow did build a base out of this stuff one day, you get sent up there to research shit and end up discovering life on the moon....only to realize its a form of space termite and the moon has giant termite nests beneath the surfaces

So kinda like red planet but with wooden buildings and space termites

 

[Rock hard as a Flintstone]

I can vaguely remember a quote attributed to Colin Chapman about wood being God's composite but it was probably Confucius or Hitler.

 

[Yak-130 Mitten]

You know what wood isnt good at? Being airtight

 

[indigoisviolet]

Stick some solar sails on it: a proper space ship.

 

[Kosher Dill]

You know what wood isnt good at? Being airtight

Nothing a little more wood can't solve.

 

[Meriasek]

You know what wood isnt good at? Being airtight

Eh, I guess if you engineer it right it's gonna be pretty tight. Or coat it afterwards.
Might be an interesting alternative to metals and lunar concrete.

 

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I can vaguely remember a quote attributed to Colin Chapman about wood being God's composite but it was probably Confucius or Hitler.

I think you'll find that it was Kevin Alfred Strom who said that.

 

[tehpope]

You should carve Donald Trump's face into it, Mt. Rushmore style, so that trannies start seething every time it peeks into their bedroom window at night. Like this.

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[Snekposter]

My father is a carpenter who solves every problem with wood. We're talking wooden auto repair levels of single mindedness. This is the kind of solution he would appreciate.

If you're a skilled enough carpenter you can make wood do anything you need it to.

Stick some solar sails on it: a proper space ship.

Can't wait to see what space shanties we come up with.

 

[teriyakiburns]

You know what wood isnt good at? Being airtight

Varnished, oiled, or waxed wood can provide an airtight seal in an atmosphere (where you don't have to worry about your sealant boiling off or a pressure differential forcing gas through), but that's not the purpose of the wood in this plan. The point of the wood here is to provide structural strength, insulation, and physical protection. The air would kept in with a barrier on the interior of the structure. Something like mylar.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

A strange solution, but not the weirdest proposition for lunar base building material:

So, future moonbases may be made out of shrooms and wood.

 

[2025 A.D.]

Oh no.. they forgot about the Moon Beavers! The FOOLS!

A strange solution, but not the weirdest proposition for lunar base building material:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5-J1t0rAlOU
So, future moonbases may be made out of shrooms and wood.

Morrowind-style mushroom towers on the moon. Now that I could get behind.

 

[obsdj]

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[Retink Retunk]

Why can't we build a real moon station for once? You know, we have the space station which is great, but why not the next hop across?

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Timber will probably deteriorate in really interesting ways in a vacuum with zero humidity and under low gravity.

That's not the issue. The intense temperatures and the radiation (solar AND cosmic, crispy!) will get it.

 

[Traummaschine]

By 2035 Elon has promised us fully autonomous driving, robot servants and a self sufficient mars colony, so wooden moon bases should be nothing.

 

[teriyakiburns]

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I...

God dammit.

 

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Beat me to it. Such is life reading the thread first.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

My father is a carpenter who solves every problem with wood. We're talking wooden auto repair levels of single mindedness. This is the kind of solution he would appreciate.

Chandler motor cars used wooden frames

 

[Grub]

I don't see why wood wouldn't work well on the moon. It's lighter than steel, it's very strong structurally, it's cheaper than aluminum, it won't rot on the moon without moisture and air. It seems like a pretty good idea honestly.