Why we should colonise the moon by Couper.

We should get to live on the moon. By couper

Imagine waking up and seeing the earth below you… that would be cool. To see the earth below you would have to be on the moon.  If you were a scientist you could get a moon rock just by going outside your lunar module instead of getting it for millions of dollars just to ship it to your lab. We have seen everywhere on earth except the very bottom of the sea so the moon would a great place to explore next.

The moon is to people today what the new world was to people 600 years ago. In my lifetime we will establish some kind of permanent station on the moon. Mind you I plan to live another 80 years.

Russia is planning to colonise the moon by 2030, if moon colonisation in 14 years is even possible! How will they do this? What technology will be needed to make this happen? Russia was planning on having robot missions this year but this hasn’t happen yet.

Russia has the experience of keeping astronauts alive in orbiting space station. They are really good at this while America has put a man on the moon and sent robots to Mars. Russia has a better chance of making space colonisation happen. Although America has the International Space Station in our atmosphere.

Russia can develop the infrastructure to colonise the moon but one of the problems will be that the Moon as 14 days of sunlight followed by 14 day of darkness.

The moon is a very dry place. That is why it is difficult to imagine living on it.  The challenge is to find out where water is and how to tap it. Lunar dust can block machinery because there is no weather on the moon, it is hard to clean off.

Anyone who wants to colonise the moon will need lots of training and money to make this happen.  Billions of money has been sent sending rovers to Mars but the moon is closer to us and we have already had people on the moon so we should be looking at colonising it.

There are advantages to colonising the moon. It would be a great step for space exploration also you may say the atmosphere is less than earth with less gravitational pull than earth.

It has some natural resources like titanium which could be used to make more rockets as it stronger and lighter than steel. There is no light pollution on the moon so radio and optical observatories could be built there.

The moon could be used for more homes as earth probably won’t be able to sustain 10 billion people. Our population is rising.

The moon could be used to grow organic food away from pesticides and pollution, and away from pests. The only way to get pests to the moon is to take them there.

Or… you could use the moon as a prison and send all the crooks there. They couldn’t escape and get back to earth even if they were smart enough, they couldn’t fly a rocket ship back to earth.

My last point is if a nuclear war or WW3 happens or even if earth gets to polluted we still have a home so we can keep living on after earth OR we could just get rid of nuclear weapons, plant more trees, recycle, don’t eat thing that are artificial and get a garden but that’s not about what this is about but you should still do that. By now you should think that we should get to the moon. I hope you can see that is makes good sense.