Can We Terraform The Moon?

Are there phenomena capable of destroying the Earth or the human species in seconds? Many. What options do we humans have if that happens? The conquest of space is the next step that we must take as a species, not only because of the economic benefits that space mining can present but because it is the best way to ensure our survival. In this conquest towards the last frontier, there is an idea that has gained strength in recent decades: Terraforming.
Terraforming a celestial body means molding it so it can sustain life as we know it and make a planet equal to or at least similar to Earth. Although this has been explored a lot in science fiction, we are increasingly approaching the technological threshold to consider the terraforming of planets and moons as a reality.
Indeed, you've heard a lot about terraforming Mars but little about the Moon, and it's normal to hear about bombarding it with water-filled meteors like it was an easy task, looking to turn it blue and then green, but how true is this? What can we do to terraform the Moon? Is it viable? Let's find out!

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Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Challenges and resources to terraform the Moon
02:13 1) The lunar magnetic field
03:40 2) Water, atmosphere, and temperature
07:02 3) Gravity
09:26 Lunar colonization

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[iregretit]

Thanks for the vid but you forgot to mention that moon dust is like tiny bits of glass that can rip your organs just by accidentally breating small amout of it

[debbieanne]

What is envisioned in this video won't come to fruition for centuries. Easier said than done

[khethelozungu]

Even if not for common habitation, the moon could be used as a forward base for constructing and launching long distance crafts.

[nelsangelin]

If you want to terraform something, improve our world and solve a worthwhile accomplishment where we live.

[Journeyagain]

8:55 Not just the tides, but how it might effect Earth's axis of rotation and Earth's rotation speed. It could make it unstable.

[GadreelAdvocat]

The first idea to get started might be to use Rovers and explosives to knock down hills on the lunar poles that block sunlight. While building up the high point you want to put your solar power tower(s). By removing shadowed areas means you can get continuous sunlight for solar power.

[deshaughnmolette]

I would definitely love to see the terraforming process on the moon one day plus, it'll be a miniature version of Earth

[SailorBarsoom]

Go to the highest spot on the Moon (it's at 5.41°S - 201.37°). Build a tower 1 Km tall (easy in the low gravity). Build another on the opposite side, one at each pole, maybe few more for good measure (some will be nearly 20 Km tall). A dozen will do, since they mainly act in tension to hold the roof in place. Ah yes, the roof...

Now roof the whole Moon over with a geodesic globe. Install three-metre thick panes of glass or sapphire. Fill with air, water, plants, animals, people. Enjoy.

Now you're shielded from radiation, and your atmosphere won't float away. Most of the time the roof wouldn't be visible.

[booch]

Probably kinda hard to terraform an alien spacecraft thats hollow 😂

[kevanhubbard]

You could build bases on the Moon but not terraform it as such because of it's low gravity and lack of magnetosphere and any magnetosphere generator would require us to invent one and I somehow doubt that we are anywhere near close .

[AmariFukui]

You all seem to forget that we can terraform basically anything, its merely a question of how much resources we wish to throw at the effort, and if its worth that effort

[D]

This might sound morbid but I think we should do everything we can to improve the Earth we already have and when the time comes that the species is threatened, just accept we had a good run

[YoungGandalf]

It's made of delicious cheese. Why would we want to change it?

[DeamonIT]

In fairness we could colonise the Moon and limit the efforts to domes or other structures, where most of the issues (bar gravity) could be solved more easily. After all, it would require a lot of time to complete terraforming, even if we had the tech to do so on hand

[SingularityZro]

I wonder why everyone is so obsessed with the impractical atmosphere. What is wrong with a surface covered with lots of domes and cities, that go deep. Far more practical and resilient. And no significant difference regarding life quality, if done right. I also assume as technology progresses, life support systems etc. will become more and more irrelevant since interstellar travel is impractical anyway when it comes to using human bodies.
Very likely that planets that have much energy storage and are as cold as possible become more attractive since they can cool down computers to the maximum. Something that is often forgotten in science fiction is that funnily, one of the biggest challenges is cooling systems with a high energy output - like massive computers.

[CassieAngelica]

In theory, yes. But we could also theoretically breed a unicorn, doesn’t mean it will be exactly what you wish.

[PhoenixtheII]

No, we can't even take care of the one rock we're on...

[mm-dwrr]

At least on the moon we'll always have lots of cheese!

[paulcooper]

We should crash Mercury into Venus and call it Earth2.
That way if anything happens to the Earth, then everybody can just go to Earth2.

[ian]

The moon was always a staging point for Earth. Venus and Mars only need a landing pad. The moon will be a tourist colony for earth but a logistical and strategic hub of earth.