How Much Would it Cost to Live on the Moon?

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Living on the moon would be very, very expensive, but let's take nine minutes to calculate just how expensive it would be.

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Lunar greenhouse photos courtesy University of Arizona and used under fair use guidelines
ISS videos courtesy NASA
Photosynthesis photo courtesy Somepics
Fuel module picture courtesy Idaho National Laboratory
“Moonlight Reprise) by Kai Engal

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The price he listed is 6% of the US annual military budget.

StepBackHistory

"Just a little nuclear reactor"

rust_belt_city_enjoyer

I can afford the moon for about 1.5 seconds. Oh boy!

ThePersuasiveParrot

36billion!? thats like nothing compaired to the 600 billions dollars america spends a YEAR on military. Let alone the 19 trillion america is in debt to.

xxxrossomaticxxx

Because of the decreased gravity on the moon, the caloric needs of a human would be significantly reduced. The caloric needs listing of "3000" per day seems rather high. Also, moon colonists would not likely be fat to begin with, reducing their metabolism further. With reduced metabolism comes reduced food and oxygen requirements.

The air quality aboard a US Naval submarine has been described as "cleaner than the air on the surface". I suspect that there are easily adaptable atmospheric processing equipment available from submarine and International Space Station technologies that could cut down on the bottled oxygen requirements. A submarine uses hydrolysis of of seawater for oxygen and reverse osmosis for drinking water. Both of which are pretty much off-the-shelf technologies, and would be compatible with a moon colony.

While I understand that your calculations were for a 1-year stay, I argue that an entire years-worth of fertilizer would be unnecessary baggage. Though a specialized composter for plant and human waste would increase shipping costs and oxygen requirements, the concept of your calculations should include that most of the base structures and systems could and would be reused. This makes follow-on visitors cheaper and cheaper, until it becomes economically viable to put science and research sites on the moon as well as expanding the colonies to accommodate an increasing number of people.

buckstarchaser

Only 36 billion?! Man, if I was Bill Gates, I'd invest in that to see what happens, and still have more than enough left to sustain myself for the rest of my life

davidthornton

If Earth becomes uninhabitable, why not live on Earth in systems designed for the Moon?

MisterMitchMM

But if we built trains on the moon, would they suck?

theosnelson

dammit wendover. You are making a video on science topic. So use the superior system. The METRIC SYSTEM

MrRishik

"If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth"

-Neil DeGrasse-Tyson

DarveyHent

8:07 Living on the Sun would be a bit extreme though. :D

mpmqbi

And to think that US spends 637 billion dollars on their military in a year. In comparison, this seems cheap.

BabaSmithVideos

If the Earth became uninhabitable, we could just use that colonization technology to build colonies on Earth, right? We'd already have plenty of water/air/soil to use (might need scrubbing and stuff)
Cut out all the rockets, rocketfuel, astronaut training, everything. Just some R&D for the tech + fabrication + transport via airplanes/boats/trucks/trains (if the trains don't suck too much) to places on earth.

Maddin