I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Disease Zone. It has scientists studying the causes and processes of illness . Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Yup! There’s no specific reason why it would be impossible to have moon bases or even colonies up there. With that said, there’s two problems with putting people on the moon permanently. The first is technical: we’d have to solve a lot of engineering challenges to make it happen. It’s doable, but it would require some work. The second reason is actually financial. It would cost a *lot* of money to build a base on the moon. We’re talking hundreds of billions of dollars here. Why would we do it? *Going* to the moon is one thing, but staying there is another. Maybe we could mine minerals from the moon, since it’s basically a big ball of rock similar to the Earth (and was probably part of the Earth at one point!), but doing so would be expensive and it’s unlikely that we’d make our money back doing that. There’s other things on the moon that could be useful, like Helium-3, but we can’t really make use of those yet.
So … why would you want to inhabit the moon?
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Sure! Not that I would enjoy living there……
Because of the lack of atmospheric oxygen, you could only go outside wearing a mask, and because of the temperature (very cold), you would need to wear a special suit!
There are already people living out in space in space stations probably not too far from the moon. But technology is still working on how to build houses on the moon. Plus….who owns the moon??
But I’d rather stay in sunny Australia enjoying the beaches without wearing a mask or suit!
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