Would the Moon be a bad place to live?

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Could a person wear a suit with built in weights to make them heavier to avoid the health effects from the Moon's gravity?

Otherwise, the Moon base would probably have to be underground

as an interesting sidenote, they have printed with moon sand analogues using SLS machines, walls and structural elements could be printed in place.

There is no overwhelming reason to believe that a being with a human genome could not adapt itself to lunar gravitation which is 1/6 that of earth. "Loonies" would have a body type quite distinct from Earth born. They would have thinner lighter bones because only 1/6 of the weight is being schlepped around. They would probably be taller as well as thinner. a "Loonie" brain would probably function just as well as that of an Earth Person.

Since Earth born and Luna born have such different body types they probably would not mate which means the "Loonies" might eventually become a distinct species.

ruveyn

Sounds both entirely feasible and like something Asimov would write.

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Humans almost certain would live -in- the Moon rather than on it. Perhaps large chambers to house centrifuges would solve the light gravitational problem. People could spend most of their time in a 1 g equivalent environment. Like on Babylon 5 which is a cylinder that rotates around its long axis.

ruveyn

That beats extracting everything, do you think that sintered regolith would make a good vaccum barrier though?

I think for a journey or walk it is good but not for good to stay.

the only good thing about living on the moon would be that you could fly using wings on your arms inside a large enough pressure dome. for some of us, that might even be reason enough to go.

otherwise, it would be an entirely artificial environment, & so far humans seem unable to make those very enticing places.

on the other hand, for humans to be able to allocate enough resources to actually accomplish such a step, it would probably take an entirely new civilization based not upon waste inequity & belligerence, so maybe by then they'll have picked up some tips about good decorating as well. i remember some of the radical housing proposals of the sixties: all curves, no right angles, variety of light sources & loungeable furniture, ktp. clearly we missed the right turn after that.

there, & so many other ways...

If an infant was raised to adulthood in the Moon's low gravity I wonder if their body would grow taller or bigger.