Would you live on the moon? - Why or why not?

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No, Null already lives on it and if I step on his moon-dust lawn wrong he'll shoot me. :(
 
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I'd rather just live on Earth. The Moon would be fine to visit, one day, if that ever becomes viable. But I'll never live there. Space is too dangerous a thing to consider living somewhere where the only thing standing between you and death is a metal enclosure.
 
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Marcus Tullius Cicero said:
I'd rather just live on Earth. The Moon would be fine to visit, one day, if that ever becomes viable. But I'll never live there. Space is too dangerous a thing to consider living somewhere where the only thing standing between you and death is a metal enclosure.
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As opposed to on Earth where the only thing standing between your death and deadly weather, nuclear disaster, or dangerous people/animals is an enclosure of whatever you could scrounge up with varying effectiveness (metal/rock/cement/wood)?

It's not like every part of other planets is dangerous. You could technically take off your space suit within the windy clouds of Venus since the weather is around 70 F / 21 C and atmospheric pressure, gravity is very similar to Earth. Just can't take your helmet off because lack of oxygen and all that.

Sometimes, Mars temps reach as high as 70 F but currently are around 30 F / -4 C. Gotta wear a spacesuit for those night time temps ranging far below zero, of course.

It's not like we have to live on planets. We could just make our own environments like O'Neill cylinders. Why adjust your safety equipment or terraform when you can have your own ideal environment anywhere in space?

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Depends on what kind of amenities there are. If the food is relatively decent and I don't have to worry about running out of water and/or air as well, and I have stuff to keep me busy, sure, it'd be great.
 
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Crystal Coomer said:
As opposed to on Earth where the only thing standing between your death and deadly weather, nuclear disaster, or dangerous people/animals is an enclosure of whatever you could scrounge up with varying effectiveness (metal/rock/cement/wood)?

It's not like every part of other planets is dangerous. You could technically take off your space suit within the windy clouds of Venus since the weather is around 70 F / 21 C and atmospheric pressure, gravity is very similar to Earth. Just can't take your helmet off because lack of oxygen and all that.

Sometimes, Mars temps reach as high as 70 F but currently are around 30 F / -4 C. Gotta wear a spacesuit for those night time temps ranging far below zero, of course.

It's not like we have to live on planets. We could just make our own environments like O'Neill cylinders. Why adjust your safety equipment or terraform when you can have your own ideal environment anywhere in space?

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I've always wanted to live in an O'Neil cylinder or something similar. Too much Halo playing/Ringworld reading in my youth, I guess.
 
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Living on the moon would be miserable but I'd sign up for it anyways because not many people get a chance these days to do something that really, truly matters from a historical perspective.

Also, I would absolutely waste the bandwidth to send "sneed" back to KF on Earth from the moon and thereby become the first spacefaring sneeder
 
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Crystal Coomer said:
As opposed to on Earth where the only thing standing between your death and deadly weather, nuclear disaster, or dangerous people/animals is an enclosure of whatever you could scrounge up with varying effectiveness (metal/rock/cement/wood)?

It's not like every part of other planets is dangerous. You could technically take off your space suit within the windy clouds of Venus since the weather is around 70 F / 21 C and atmospheric pressure, gravity is very similar to Earth. Just can't take your helmet off because lack of oxygen and all that.

Sometimes, Mars temps reach as high as 70 F but currently are around 30 F / -4 C. Gotta wear a spacesuit for those night time temps ranging far below zero, of course.

It's not like we have to live on planets. We could just make our own environments like O'Neill cylinders. Why adjust your safety equipment or terraform when you can have your own ideal environment anywhere in space?

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I stole this book from my ex girlfriend's, dead dad, that was full of pictures just like this. It was all done by sci-fi artists from the 1960s (I think the book was published in 1968 or so) and it was awesome. I wish I knew where that book was. It would have these cool pictures of giant, advanced space cities and gargantuan spaceships that would take up most of the page, then it would have a few lines or up to a paragraph with made up jargon describing what was in the picture. Stuff like, "Yes, the Xionites mine for minerals deep in the crators of their 3rd moon." I wish I could find that damn book, or remember what it was called. I'd actually buy it if I could find it. Very cool stuff.
 
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If I had an expertise that could make a difference in future colonization efforts or just in mining material like helium-3 with immediate use, maybe. Just being on the moon? Not much of a point.
 
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