Moon Base Colony

By Phillip Duke Ph.D.

The Moon's relative nearness and its one-sixth Earth gravity make it the best location for an off-Earth Base Colony, because its location and gravity make it relatively easy to travel between the Earth and its Moon.

Moon Base Colony is located underground and is almost entirely self-sufficient. Breathable air is supplied by green plants growing under electric powered grow lights, heat and electric power are supplied by a nuclear reactor and solar cell arrays on the surface. Everything is recycled, there is no waste.

Living conditions on Moon Base Colony are very different from the easy living on Earth's surface, and over time the people on Moon Base necessarily adapt to their new living conditions, and to adapt they must and do change.

This book describes Moon Base Colony's beginning, and follows the many changes over 20 generations of living in the Moon. Over time numerous changes result, and by their 20th generation the inhabitants look very different from the people on Earth, and they think somewhat differently, but they are still human.

The changing personal lives of Ann, a young girl of Moon Base, is tfollowed after 20 generations. Born afterr only 3 generations of iving in the Moon, she cannot grasp the concept of what a pet canary or a chicken are, .the idea of eating eggs is entirely foreign, and eating the chicken for food is entirely unbelievable When Ann visits a female bariatric patient, and sees her kiss her pet canary named "Bob," Ann begins to understand what a pet canary is. 

If you like reading about the changing personal lives, biology and technology of people iving on the Moon for 20 generations, you will like reading this book.

Best regards and good reading from

Phillip Duke Ph.D.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phillip Duke Ph.D.
• Release date: Feb 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507031162

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Moon Base Colony

By

Phillip Duke Ph.D.

Copyright © 2012 Phillip Duke Ph.D. all rights reserved.

13,740 Words.

With 4 Illustrations.

Author’s Introduction

The Moon is by far the most attractive site for an off-Earth base colony, because its weak one-sixth Earth gravity and relative nearness to Earth, make travel between Earth and Moon relatively easy. The great advantages of nearness and lower gravity, in comparison with the much greater distance and higher gravity of a Mars colony, make the Moon colony concept much more attractive than a colony on Mars.. 

Man has already been to the Moon, man has walked on the Moon, and man has driven a Moon –buggy on the Moon. So the Moon is really not so difficult for man to visit, and then return to Earth. The following pictures of the Apollo mission manned flights to the Moon show that the difficulties presented by the Moon’s distance, airless surface and temperature extremes can be overcome, because they have already been overcome. After repeatedly visiting the Moon, the next logical step is to establish a colony on the Moon, or rather in the Moon, because a Moon colony would be underground, to avoid the unfavorable surface conditions.

Apollo 11 first manned mission to the Moon launch photograph.

Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong’s boot print in Lunar surface dust.

Apollo 14 Moon buggy excursion on the Moon’s surface.

People on/in the Moon would be required to live under very different conditions, than people living on Earth. On Earth the simple necessities of life, air and water, are readily available, but on the Moon, there is naturally no air, and no water, On Earth, the temperature may sometimes make life difficult; on the Moon’s surface it is always far too cold or hot for life.  The force of gravity on the Moon is only one sixth of what it is on Earth, so a man who weighs 180 pounds on the Earth would weigh only 30 pounds on the Moon. The lower gravity makes it much easier to move around, and lift and move heavy objects, which is all to the good. However, working against gravity keeps bones and muscles strong. Moon Base inhabitants will necessarily lose bone and muscle mass.

Whenever people settle and live in new and different environments, they are subject to those environments. Environmentally favored inherited characteristics accumulate over time, and can eventually result in appreciable differences. On Earth differences in climate resulted in the three different human races. On the Moon, a number of environmental conditions are very different from those on Earth. On Earth, people can go outside most anytime, where they can feel wind, and rain, see the sky, and experience the Sun. On the Moon, there is no experiencing rain, wind, sky or Sun, because there is no rain or wind, and only a very select few ever go outside, and when they do, it is in cumbersome space suits, with special eye protection against the airless Sun’s harsh glare.

Living in an entirely artificial, enclosed environment, under severely cramped and crowded conditions, with the knowledge that the environment outside is entirely hostile to life, must take its toll psychologically. On Earth, the only comparable living condition is that of people in submarines. Submarine personnel are specially selected for emotional stability, and they get top quality food, bonus pay, and shore leave. When the sub surfaces crewmembers may be able to go topside and breathe fresh air. On the Moon, there is no special personnel selection, everyone eats the same (rather monotonous) vegetarian food, and there are no bonuses or shore leave. In addition, no one ever goes topside to breathe fresh air, because on the Moon there is no air topside, just the instantly deadly vacuum of empty space.

The Moon’s greatly reduced gravity can be expected to affect body structures and functions; a 180-pound man on Earth would weigh only 30 pounds on the