Will people ever live on the moon? After the earth has no place left for anyone?

Answer 1

Hopefully, people will live on the moon before the earth runs out of room. It shouldn't be too difficult to live underground there, provided we can get sufficient water.

Answer 2

The answer would by "not on the moon" but "underneath the surface of the moon".

Given the frequency of impact of various celestial bodies, meteorites and also the CME from the Sun, would make any space station on the surface of the moon be hazzardous to man. Either an impact or the dangerous radiation can kill man. Maybe an underground city, safe from such hazzards could be made hospitable for mankind to survive there temporarily for a few hundred years. Man will have to shift base from the moon after that and find a more hospitable planet to live in.

Answer 3

The 6 billion people on the planet can fit into an area 30 kms square - about the size of a large city.

There is heaps of room. We just have to be able to get on together, and we need global warming so we can grow more food in marginal regions (more plant growth with extra heat, rain and CO2.

Get a reality check. Look around you at mountains, oceans, forests, rivers, blue sky, etc etc. Then take a look at some of the pictures taken on the moon. Get real.

Enjoy the planet Earth. As far as we know, there is nothing like it in the universe.

Answer 4

I do not think we can guess it now. May be after a few hundreads of years it would be possible. Human may learn to live without oxygen and water by then.

However NASA has some views on it -
One of NASA's goals is to return humans to the moon by 2020. To leap into lunar surface exploration beyond what the Apollo missions were able to accomplish, future lunar missions will become greatly extended--as much as six months. During these long-duration missions, the most critical element to success is the Habitation System, or simply put, the place the crew will live and work. The Habitat serves as a "home away from home" for the astronauts, providing physical needs and their living and working spaces.

Answer 5

It's very unlikely that humans will ever live on the moon for a prolonged amount of time.

We haven't been to the moon in 30 years. Our space technology today is not designed for such use, so we're looking at another decade or so just to design something capable of getting to the moon. Even then, somebody has to pay for it, and space exploration/research interest is pretty low these days.

The moon doesn't have the gravity, atmosphere, or basic resources for humans to survive for length amounts of time. Getting the bare necessities to the moon would cost astronomical amounts of money. Building the infrastructure needed for a moon community would cost inconceivable amounts more.

Back on earth, nature has a way of dealing with overpopulation: disease. Look for a global pandemic to wipe out millions of people before the next astronaut sets foot on the moon.

Answer 6

There is a chance that we will do this but there is a better chance for people to live in a space station because they will use less resources would be closer to the earth and easier to get resources to such as water and food. Plus a permanent base on the moon would cost much more then a space station.

Answer 7

A small number of people might be able to live on the moon indefinitely, but they would have to recycle every last drop of water and every bit of material, and they would have to spend most of their time underground (the unshielded sunlight would provide practically free energy but it would also kill them if they didn't keep out of its way).

The weak gravity would make their muscles atrophy and cause serious health problems after a while, so until we learn to design our genes to fit the environment, the moon or Mars do not offer any kind of solution if we wreck the earth.

Answer 8

Earth is not fully explored yet , nature is still hiding it's many secret in it. If you think science developed itself to it's heights you are wrong.
Imagine percentage of earth we are able to illuminate in artificial light during night may be not even 1% of total area.We are little bit aware movements of creature on Earth in illuminated surface but what about other part do you know?We know something about things which can be seen by bare eyes falls in vision bandwidth , rest of other thing are out of our reach.
Nature will balance itself before we need to it's become mandatory living in Moon for us.

Answer 9

NASA hopes to keep people on the moon for up to six months by 2020.

Answer 10

Yes. Probably long before we run out of room on Earth. Still maybe a few generations sway (let us say another 60 to 80 years, minimum)