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Thread: Print Me a Condo on the Moon!
# 22856 byGARY ANSORGE on March 1, 2013, 4:40 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
Y'All seem to be assuming a 1/5 th G on the moon. Last I heard, it was i/6th G, (from Wiki)Equatorial surface gravity1.622m/s2(0.165 4g)
It might be better to build ground beams on the ground and lift them into place or perhaps even dig out underneath a large beam to the desired height.
Garden walls ( no reinforcing) could be built almost 30 feet high. Fully reinforced walls might be 300-400 feet high.
Then again, a 100 lb stack block on earth weighs only 20 lbs on the moon. A 100 lb stacking block on the moon would weight 500 lbs on earth.
There's plenty of iron, aluminum, etc. on the Moon to build rebar with. But that means processing equipment (and, probably, at least a few people) on the Moon to refine regolith into construction materials. Then again, that's sort of what we want to BE THERE for.