maxthefox

bluGill, 2 months ago

@benlk

@nyrath @Alon The moon is a hyperloop by default. Since moon dust is really nasty this make sense - you don't need to worry about leaks so the tube can be simpler and cheaper to design. No airlocks to get in/out. several thousand km/h speeds.

Of course the elephant in the room is this - no matter what the "this" is - will be expensive to build. I don't see the moon ever getting populated enough to be worth the costs to build anything other than off road vehicles. There just isn't enough to do there for more then a few scientific outposts. We will never teraform it to the point where a colony can be self sustaining. (Mars is the most likely planet to terrraform - and we are not sure. Maybe Venus could be done as well, but it is much harder)