![]() Ian McDonald thinks it will take a thumping profit motive to make lunar colonisation even remotely conceivable, and that colonists will have to be a more hardy breed than your regular frontiersmen and women. Part of the problem is that when we went to the moon what we found was profoundly unpromising: a vacuum landscape of almost unimaginable harshness, lethally hot during its fortnight-long day, appallingly cold during its fortnight-long night, blasted with radiation, dusty, parched and grey. ![]() No human has ventured further than low earth orbit for 30 years. Going to the moon is now something our ancestors did, not something our children are likely to do. Manned spaceflight in the 1960s and 1970s quickly slipped from science fiction’s dreamed-of future into reality’s irretrievable past. T hat old song “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon” turned out to be a lie. ![]()
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