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This is why lunar colonies will need to live underground
For decades the thought of colonising the Moon has tantalised scientists and visionaries alike. Various colonies have graced our screens, from the sprawling Moonbase Alpha in Space: 1999 to the compact mining colony in Moon. A lunar colony is arguably the next logical step for mankind. It is our nearest stellar neighbour, a mere 238,000 miles (383,000km) away, which makes resupplying relatively easy. One attraction is the comparatively abundant...
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As do Mars colonies.I still think living off world is a really bad idea.
Sooner or later we're going to need to get off this planet. We'll make the biosphere uninhabitable by human life, another asteroid will hit or we'll simply last long enough that the sun will burn out its fuel and expand until the surface of the planet melts. Our survival as a species ultimately requires us to move out into the solar system and eventually the rest of the galaxy. Otherwise we're effectively keeping our eggs in the same basket, and on the day when that basket fails we'll have nothing left.