Will the mostly self-sufficient Moon colony exist by 2100?
Will the mostly self-sufficient Moon colony exist by 2100?
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To count as self-sufficient it should be able to survive for at least other 20 years even in case of import from Earth stopping completely. The colony should have human inhabitants.
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Mars isn't that much harder to get to and has so much better conditions it's not even funny, including free carbon and oxygen, great book about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Mars
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