Moon Living

Of course, living on the moon won't be easy. The camp envisioned is not so much a village as an inhabited research base. Similar to those in places like Antarctica, but there are far greater obstacles to living on the moon than just cold weather. The biggest is cosmic radiation. Unlike the Earth, the moon has no atmosphere and no magnetic field. A person on its surface can receive over 400 times the maximum safe dosage of heavy ion radiation, enough to be fatal within ten hours, even in a spacesuit. The first step would likely involve robots and 3D printers constructing covered habitats from lunar soil, or building shelters inside caves formed by lava tubes from the moon's volcanic past. But what would the inhabitants live on? Supplies would need to be transported from Earth at first. Growing plants requires greenhouse soil and air rich in carbon dioxide, a gas that's rare on the moon, but could be synthesised from recycled materials. A water treatment plant could be supplied by ice mined from the polar regions using a specialised drill that can bore two meters beneath the lunar surface. Friendly bacteria and viruses necessary to the human microbiome and immune system would also have to be imported or synthesized on site. And lunar inhabitants would have to exercise for hours a day to maintain bone and muscle mass. That' s because the moon's gravity is just one-sixth that of the Earth. and the everyday strain of working against gravity is part of what keeps our bodies healthy.