Moon's Giant Lava Tubes Could Be Stable Enough To Shelter Entire Cities

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[bk1000]

thing.

[tumblindice]

I’d like to be, under the moon
In an octopus’s lava tube lagoon.

[martin_fierro]

[skinkinthegrass]

"No operating your Interrossiter device after 11PM."for some of you "This Island Earth", shall be on 10pm, next
Saturday on a retro-sci.-fi. movie channel show on ME-TV.

[John Valentine]

Not a single word after word no. 4 means a durned thing.

[mrsmith]

Deep, narrow craters- which there are plenty of- are a much better choice.
Cover the top with cheap plastic and excavate around the inside of the base.
Two layers of protection against air leaks, protection against meteorites and radiation, and a view. It’s also more compact.

[smokingfrog]

http://www.space.com/26575-lunar-pits-and-lava-tubes-could-house-astronauts-video.html

[logi_cal869]

“We must go to the moon and fill the holes! It’s a moral imperative!!!”

[toucan]

So it takes us millions of years to move out of caves and now we’re moving back in? I don’t think so.

[a fool in paradise]

You’d have to seal the whole thing, can you trust the “ground” below it (or is there a network of “tubes” underneath it)?

Pipe dream stuff, really.

We can’t even send a man to the moon right now, kind of early to be talking about selfsustaining cities there.

[a fool in paradise]

That’s exactly what I want: to live in a lava tube on the moon.

Sleep in a tube in a tube.

[Revelation 911]

the horta always reminded me of school lunch pizza with burned cheese

[trebb]

I didn’t know the moon had giant lava tubes.

The moon was created the last time the Yellowstone caldera blew. The lava tubes were originally part of the earth.

[BenLurkin]

Excellent.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Moon's Giant Lava Tubes Could Be Stable Enough To Shelter Entire Cities

Can we pick which ones? I nominate Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis.

[D Rider]

Dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided. A computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills.

Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male...