I like space shit.

The people building it may

It's why I fucking play EVE

if you go into a 100km higher orbit

you won't have to deal with anything

Yeah but wouldn't that make it harder to resupply?

stop.

Let's just orbit the sun to build things

use your brain

Problem solved

Oh, another reason to go to the moon, as @Dionara just mentioned, is getting stuff to the orbit to whatever you're building

I don't know astrophysics.

1/6th the gravity = less fuel to get materials up

So basically, the only use of the moon is a construction site and warehouse

I thought we were talking stuff from earth to the ISS

Not from the moon to ISS

the ISS is in a position where the cost in fuel of pushing it is less than what it would cost for every resuply mission to get to that higher orbit

We started this asking why build shit on the moon

if you put it on the moon it would cost many times more

Unless there is a self-sustaining colony on the moon.

You can build on the moon to eventually make it easier to get to mars.

That hs a surplus of supplies to send.

@Dionara you can't have a self sustaining colony on the moon

@ping Would it be any harder than building a self-sustaining colony on Mars?

@ping We can't make green houses, inject soil with nitrogen to make it more fertile, create gravity fields?

Does the moon have the required water?

If so, then that's the only reason not to colonize the moon

mars has water, minerals, energy, an atmosphere to keep you from getting cancer

Well, idk about the atmosphere.

It has one, yes

Mars has a minimal atmosphere

But idk if it will be enough xD

We would still need some sort of covering for the colony

Pretty sure the atmosphere on Mars is still filled with things that give you cancer

a lot less than earth, but infinitely more than the moon

And isn't the dust toxic?

On mars

probably

Show of hands

the surface is covered in perchlorates

which have been known to be toxic on earth