Can high-tech cavemen live on the Moon?

that is a good reason for not living in a zero g environment, but 1/6
would be different. People who lived there might have trouble going
back to earth, but few of them would want to. they would consider it
too big, too noisy, too open, and 'why would anyone want to have an
open sky?'

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "the_gunfighter_45acp"
wrote:
>
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Douglas May wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:59 PM, Xenophile wrote:
> >
> > > > Moon development will likely end up like Nevada -- tourism,
military
> > > > bases, gambling, prostitution, and speedy marriages.
> > >
> > > I sometimes hear (read) this about Mars. I can't see why the
O'Neill
> > > habitats can't do gambling, prostitution, and speedy marriages
> > > themselves. Notice I didn't say tourism. The O'Neills will do
> > > tourism, and do it beautifully. But the Moon will have
something to
> > > offer that no other place can: the fact that it is the Moon.
Just
> > > like London can't be replaced. Of course, a lot of people go to
> > > Honolulu as well...
> >
> > I expect that for many years moon bases will be more like
offshore
> > oil rigs here. Few people rotating in and out. Of course people
find
> > very strange places to live here on earth, and eventually, there
will
> > be a substantial population of people who simply chose to live on
the
> > moon for some strange reason, despite all its disadvantages.
> > Technology has allowed us to live in a variety of different
habitats
> > on Earth, and it will do the same in space. People grow fond of
the
> > desert just as they do the mountains or the jungle. It's one of
> > humanity's greatest evolutionary advantages: we can learn to
thrive
> > in many climates.
> >
> > doug
> >
> Well chances are that people will work on the moon not live there
for
> any real length of time. Reason sooner or later people will want to
> start a family where they live microgravity or low gravity bodies be
> poor place for a child in the womb. We see this with experiments
> sending chicken eggs to space to develop, and brought back to hach.
> The chicks have a very poor sense of balance. And lets not forget
how
> our bones weaken in space. It'd really be sad if your 11 year old
> child is going back to earth where s/he has never been, and having
to