NASA has an “Artemis mission” planned. The goal is to establish a permanent moon base. But I don’t see what we can do there that we can’t do with robots. We’d have to provide space for people to live, and food, and water, and all that stuff. Not even mentioning 1/6 gravity isn’t exactly healthy.

I’d rather we just send robots to the moon and do what we need to do there until we can easily build huge habitats for people.

  • Oka@sopuli.xyz
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    Plant life :p But it would be nice if, by the time we do reach interplanetary travel, we do not have to live off the land we visit.

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      We would live of the land, but it would be the land itself, not the life growing from it.