Welcome to moonbase
by Ben Bova · first published 1987
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A handbook for would-be visitors and workers at a twenty-first-century lunar settlement.
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There's a great book called "Welcome to Moonbase" by Ben Bova (1987) written from the perspective of an established colony on the moon providing an information handbook for someone recently relocated to live and work there. A lot of ground is covered,…
on “How to build a Moon base” ↗There's a great speculative scifi book called "Welcome to Moonbase" (Ben Bova, 1987)[0] that is written as an employee manual for people relocating to an established moon colony. There are sections on the history of the moonbase, the economy, the social aspects, living…
on “Can we colonize the moon?” ↗…surface gravity. At least on the Moon you can go home (in a few days rather than lots of months) or fly like a bird under your own power if your cave is big enough. ("The Menace from Earth", Heinlein; "Welcome to Moonbase", Bova) But even if we can't live there it's still really useful and important to go: micro-gravity manufacturing; robotic asteroid mining; science... I hope we can live in space, I want to colonize…
on “Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars” ↗…laundry, factories that build and delivery whole houses (Bucky again: Dymaxion Home), arcologies (ecologically harmonious mega-cities designed and built as single buildings, Paolo Soleri), Moonbase ("Welcome to Moonbase" by Ben Bova), and those are just the plausible things, linear projections of the capabilities on hand. Not even talking about nanotech, longevity drugs, elctrogravity, etc. - - - - It's much easier…
on “Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?” ↗Ben Bova wrote a book: "Welcome to Moonbase." I purchased that as a kid, in a souvenir shop, on our way out of Cape Canaveral. We were there specifically to see the Space Shuttle slow-crawl to it's launchpad destination. I never got to see a…
on “Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game” ↗