is there any parrticular part of the moon that would be better for a colony?

Answer 1

Probably at the north or south pole, where the sun is always just on the horizon, usable for energy but not blasting the living quarters with raw solar energy for weeks at a time, or freezing them at near absolute zero when facing away from the sun.

Telescopes could be placed a few kilometers towards the "dark side" facing away from earth and all its radio interference. Whether the sun was up would only matter if it stressed the equipment through alternating extremes of heat and cold, but the "seeing" would be the same since there is no atmosphere and the sky would be perfectly dark all the time.

Living quarters would have to be mostly underground, for protection from solar radiation and temperature fluctuations. There would be communications facilities facing earth, and no doubt some earth-observing telescopes as well
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Answer 2

It has been theorized that some cometary impact craters at the moon's south pole may still contain the frozen water that composed the comet. Water would be a valuable resource to any extra-planetary colony. Water can be used, aside from the obvious, to make breathable oxygen and hydrogen rocket fuel.

Having a pole based colony as far from the plane of the ecliptic as possible may also be slightly safer from the risks of meteoroid impacts.

Location would also depend on the purpose of the outpost. An astronomical observatory would be better set up on the dark side of the moon, to avoid solar and earth based EM interference, although a number of sattelites would be required to allow line of site communication with the Earth.

Answer 3

Some claim that there are already on the dark side. Since this might offer more protection from the suns radiation.Otherwise, deep inside the Moons surface I would imagine also.This would be more of a mining colony along with any other science research we cannot accomplish here.Building a larger space station which we can eventually orbit and have similar trial colonies on other possible planets like Mars. Some have speculated on the southern pole of the Moon which would offer more light for an energy source. If we could finally have world peace there could be many science projects we could fulfill in a relatively short amount of time. China's ambitions seem to be headed there already without us.

Answer 4

Assuming you have an oxygen supply...

Because a moon day is about four weeks long, I think you have problems regardless of where the colony is located. The middle of the day will get brutally hot, while the middle of the night will be oppressively cold. (The astronauts who visited the moon were only there a short time, so they naturally picked a spot where the temperature wasn't too bad.) Near the poles would probably offer the best conditions.

Answer 5

Yes.

Keep the Colony right here on Earth and place it in the Sudan, or in the Gaza Strip. We need to teach people how to live in peace and tranquility here on Earth before jumping off into space somewhere.