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Lunar Boom Town

2007-09-23T01:05:21Z

71.161.23.142: tweak intorductory wording

It will be expensive to live on the moon. What kinds of business and factories and export will it take to pay for the necessary imports? What kinds of skills will be needed? We need to figure all this stuff out before our [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown boomtown] will prosper whether in a virtual simulation or actually on the moon.

Help us budding business tycoons find out and figure it out by browsing [http://spacefuture.com/home.shtml SpaceFuture.com] or using other sources of information and report back creatively.

This project focuses on [[w:business plan]]s and evaluation of business models and technical approaches and risk factors. There is some information and samples of business plans at: http://www.bplans.com Wikibooks also has some detailed information (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Writing_a_Business_Plan) on standard business plans. Keep in mind we do not need excessive detail to get started and we can all collaborate on our lunar business models and plans.

In the meantime we need some icons for one of our local freight company simulators.

* [[cisLunarFreighter]] Java guys requested some jpegs or pngs for graphics! Post samples here or there or somewhere you think appropriate.
*[[/links to technical papers]]
*[[/sites with information]]

Current theme song[http://www.mosdownload.com/play.m3u?sf=224737] is by Sharam. We are considering remixing it with some drums to represent discrete large missions abrubtly impacting the markets. We use this theme song to represent the complex interplay of businesses and customers in free markets. If you have a better theme song for Lunar Boom Town, please leave a link here or on discusion page so others may evaulatue it as a replacement.

==Open Entrepreneurial Ideas==

What business could I/you/they/we startup or run on in Lunar Boom Town?

*[[/Begillion resource harvesting|Bagillion resource harvesting]]
*[[/Boomtown Ice Skating Rink]]
*[[/Boomtown Plaza Bakery]] Sample executive summary.[http://www.bplans.com/Sample_Business_Plans/Restaurant_Cafe_And_Bakery_Business_Plans/Bakery_Business_Plan/executive_summary.cfm]

*[[/Chicken Farm]]

*[[/Feuling Station]]

*[[/Glass Production]]

*[[/Horticulture Nursery]]

*[[/LOX Domestic and Exports]]
*[[/Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce]]

*[[/Rabbit Ranch]]
*[[/Rover Repairs & Modification]]
*[[/Rover Outback Racing]]
*[[/Human Powered Vehicles]]
*[[/Satellite and Computer Wreckers]]
*[[/Sintered Regolith]]
*[[/Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement]]
*[[/Steel Production]]

*[[/Terran Tourist Transport]]
*[[/Tourist Hotel]]

*[[/Worm Soil Factory]]
*[[/Retirement community]]
*[[/Medical treatment]]

*[[/Building & construction facility]]

== Studies in feasibility ==
[[/Lunar base light cycles]]

==External Resources:==
* http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
* http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm
:Maybe some of our peer teams local designs would be eligible for this NASA design competition or maybe just practice here locally and then go compete globally?
* [[w:International_Space_Settlement_Design_Competition|International Space Settlement Design Competition]]

==Background information:==
* Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moondust_060223.html]
* TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/DegradeLunarVacuum.html]

[[Category:Business learning projects]]
[[Category:Learning projects]]

Lunar Boom Town

2007-09-23T01:00:49Z

71.161.23.142: add links to WP and WB business plan documents

It will be expensive to live on the moon. What kinds of business and factories and export will it take to pay for the necessary imports? What kinds of skills will be needed? We need to figure all this stuff out before our [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown boomtown] will prosper whether in a virtual simulation or actually on the moon.

Help us find out and figure it out by browsing [http://spacefuture.com/home.shtml SpaceFuture.com] or using other sources of information and report back creatively.

This project focuses on [[w:business plan]]s and evaluation of business models and technical approaches and risk factors. There is some information and samples of business plans at: http://www.bplans.com Wikibooks also has some detailed information (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Writing_a_Business_Plan) on standard business plans. Keep in mind we do not need excessive detail to get started and we can all collaborate on our lunar business models and plans.

In the meantime we need some icons for one of our local freight company simulators.

* [[cisLunarFreighter]] Java guys requested some jpegs or pngs for graphics! Post samples here or there or somewhere you think appropriate.
*[[/links to technical papers]]
*[[/sites with information]]

Current theme song[http://www.mosdownload.com/play.m3u?sf=224737] is by Sharam. We are considering remixing it with some drums to represent discrete large missions abrubtly impacting the markets. We use this theme song to represent the complex interplay of businesses and customers in free markets. If you have a better theme song for Lunar Boom Town, please leave a link here or on discusion page so others may evaulatue it as a replacement.

==Open Entrepreneurial Ideas==

What business could I/you/they/we startup or run on in Lunar Boom Town?

*[[/Begillion resource harvesting|Bagillion resource harvesting]]
*[[/Boomtown Ice Skating Rink]]
*[[/Boomtown Plaza Bakery]] Sample executive summary.[http://www.bplans.com/Sample_Business_Plans/Restaurant_Cafe_And_Bakery_Business_Plans/Bakery_Business_Plan/executive_summary.cfm]

*[[/Chicken Farm]]

*[[/Feuling Station]]

*[[/Glass Production]]

*[[/Horticulture Nursery]]

*[[/LOX Domestic and Exports]]
*[[/Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce]]

*[[/Rabbit Ranch]]
*[[/Rover Repairs & Modification]]
*[[/Rover Outback Racing]]
*[[/Human Powered Vehicles]]
*[[/Satellite and Computer Wreckers]]
*[[/Sintered Regolith]]
*[[/Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement]]
*[[/Steel Production]]

*[[/Terran Tourist Transport]]
*[[/Tourist Hotel]]

*[[/Worm Soil Factory]]
*[[/Retirement community]]
*[[/Medical treatment]]

*[[/Building & construction facility]]

== Studies in feasibility ==
[[/Lunar base light cycles]]

==External Resources:==
* http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
* http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm
:Maybe some of our peer teams local designs would be eligible for this NASA design competition or maybe just practice here locally and then go compete globally?
* [[w:International_Space_Settlement_Design_Competition|International Space Settlement Design Competition]]

==Background information:==
* Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moondust_060223.html]
* TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/DegradeLunarVacuum.html]

[[Category:Business learning projects]]
[[Category:Learning projects]]

Lunar Boom Town

2007-09-23T00:26:40Z

71.161.23.142: /* Open Entrepreneurial Ideas */ Provide link to sample executive summary for a bakery and java shop

It will be expensive to live on the moon. What kinds of business and factories and export will it take to pay for the necessary imports? What kinds of skills will be needed? We need to figure all this stuff out before our [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown boomtown] will prosper whether in a virtual simulation or actually on the moon.

Help us find out and figure it out by browsing [http://spacefuture.com/home.shtml SpaceFuture.com] or using other sources of information and report back creatively.

This project focuses on [[w:business plan]]s and evaluation of business models and technical approaches and risk factors. There is some information and samples of business plans at: http://www.bplans.com

In the meantime we need some icons for one of our local freight company simulators.

* [[cisLunarFreighter]] Java guys requested some jpegs or pngs for graphics! Post samples here or there or somewhere you think appropriate.
*[[/links to technical papers]]
*[[/sites with information]]

Current theme song[http://www.mosdownload.com/play.m3u?sf=224737] is by Sharam. We are considering remixing it with some drums to represent discrete large missions abrubtly impacting the markets. We use this theme song to represent the complex interplay of businesses and customers in free markets. If you have a better theme song for Lunar Boom Town, please leave a link here or on discusion page so others may evaulatue it as a replacement.

==Open Entrepreneurial Ideas==

What business could I/you/they/we startup or run on in Lunar Boom Town?

*[[/Begillion resource harvesting|Bagillion resource harvesting]]
*[[/Boomtown Ice Skating Rink]]
*[[/Boomtown Plaza Bakery]] Sample executive summary.[http://www.bplans.com/Sample_Business_Plans/Restaurant_Cafe_And_Bakery_Business_Plans/Bakery_Business_Plan/executive_summary.cfm]

*[[/Chicken Farm]]

*[[/Feuling Station]]

*[[/Glass Production]]

*[[/Horticulture Nursery]]

*[[/LOX Domestic and Exports]]
*[[/Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce]]

*[[/Rabbit Ranch]]
*[[/Rover Repairs & Modification]]
*[[/Rover Outback Racing]]
*[[/Human Powered Vehicles]]
*[[/Satellite and Computer Wreckers]]
*[[/Sintered Regolith]]
*[[/Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement]]
*[[/Steel Production]]

*[[/Terran Tourist Transport]]
*[[/Tourist Hotel]]

*[[/Worm Soil Factory]]
*[[/Retirement community]]
*[[/Medical treatment]]

*[[/Building & construction facility]]

== Studies in feasibility ==
[[/Lunar base light cycles]]

==External Resources:==
* http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
* http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm
:Maybe some of our peer teams local designs would be eligible for this NASA design competition or maybe just practice here locally and then go compete globally?
* [[w:International_Space_Settlement_Design_Competition|International Space Settlement Design Competition]]

==Background information:==
* Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moondust_060223.html]
* TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/DegradeLunarVacuum.html]

[[Category:Business learning projects]]
[[Category:Learning projects]]

Lunar Boom Town

2007-09-23T00:21:12Z

71.161.23.142: fix links

It will be expensive to live on the moon. What kinds of business and factories and export will it take to pay for the necessary imports? What kinds of skills will be needed? We need to figure all this stuff out before our [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown boomtown] will prosper whether in a virtual simulation or actually on the moon.

Help us find out and figure it out by browsing [http://spacefuture.com/home.shtml SpaceFuture.com] or using other sources of information and report back creatively.

This project focuses on [[w:business plan]]s and evaluation of business models and technical approaches and risk factors. There is some information and samples of business plans at: http://www.bplans.com

In the meantime we need some icons for one of our local freight company simulators.

* [[cisLunarFreighter]] Java guys requested some jpegs or pngs for graphics! Post samples here or there or somewhere you think appropriate.
*[[/links to technical papers]]
*[[/sites with information]]

Current theme song[http://www.mosdownload.com/play.m3u?sf=224737] is by Sharam. We are considering remixing it with some drums to represent discrete large missions abrubtly impacting the markets. We use this theme song to represent the complex interplay of businesses and customers in free markets. If you have a better theme song for Lunar Boom Town, please leave a link here or on discusion page so others may evaulatue it as a replacement.

==Open Entrepreneurial Ideas==

What business could I/you/they/we startup or run on in Lunar Boom Town?

*[[/Begillion resource harvesting|Bagillion resource harvesting]]
*[[/Boomtown Ice Skating Rink]]

*[[/Chicken Farm]]

*[[/Feuling Station]]

*[[/Glass Production]]

*[[/Horticulture Nursery]]

*[[/LOX Domestic and Exports]]
*[[/Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce]]

*[[/Rabbit Ranch]]
*[[/Rover Repairs & Modification]]
*[[/Rover Outback Racing]]
*[[/Human Powered Vehicles]]
*[[/Satellite and Computer Wreckers]]
*[[/Sintered Regolith]]
*[[/Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement]]
*[[/Steel Production]]

*[[/Terran Tourist Transport]]
*[[/Tourist Hotel]]

*[[/Worm Soil Factory]]
*[[/Retirement community]]
*[[/Medical treatment]]

*[[/Building & construction facility]]

== Studies in feasibility ==
[[/Lunar base light cycles]]

==External Resources:==
* http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
* http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm
:Maybe some of our peer teams local designs would be eligible for this NASA design competition or maybe just practice here locally and then go compete globally?
* [[w:International_Space_Settlement_Design_Competition|International Space Settlement Design Competition]]

==Background information:==
* Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moondust_060223.html]
* TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/DegradeLunarVacuum.html]

[[Category:Business learning projects]]
[[Category:Learning projects]]

Lunar Boom Town

2007-09-23T00:20:00Z

71.161.23.142: add some links to wikipedia and small business administration

It will be expensive to live on the moon. What kinds of business and factories and export will it take to pay for the necessary imports? What kinds of skills will be needed? We need to figure all this stuff out before our [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown boomtown] will prosper whether in a virtual simulation or actually on the moon.

Help us find out and figure it out by browsing [http://spacefuture.com/home.shtml SpaceFuture.com] or using other sources of information and report back creatively.

This project focuses on [[w:business plans]] and evaluation of business models and technical approaches and risk factors. There is some information and samples of business plans at: www.bplans.com

In the meantime we need some icons for one of our local freight company simulators.

* [[cisLunarFreighter]] Java guys requested some jpegs or pngs for graphics! Post samples here or there or somewhere you think appropriate.
*[[/links to technical papers]]
*[[/sites with information]]

Current theme song[http://www.mosdownload.com/play.m3u?sf=224737] is by Sharam. We are considering remixing it with some drums to represent discrete large missions abrubtly impacting the markets. We use this theme song to represent the complex interplay of businesses and customers in free markets. If you have a better theme song for Lunar Boom Town, please leave a link here or on discusion page so others may evaulatue it as a replacement.

==Open Entrepreneurial Ideas==

What business could I/you/they/we startup or run on in Lunar Boom Town?

*[[/Begillion resource harvesting|Bagillion resource harvesting]]
*[[/Boomtown Ice Skating Rink]]

*[[/Chicken Farm]]

*[[/Feuling Station]]

*[[/Glass Production]]

*[[/Horticulture Nursery]]

*[[/LOX Domestic and Exports]]
*[[/Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce]]

*[[/Rabbit Ranch]]
*[[/Rover Repairs & Modification]]
*[[/Rover Outback Racing]]
*[[/Human Powered Vehicles]]
*[[/Satellite and Computer Wreckers]]
*[[/Sintered Regolith]]
*[[/Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement]]
*[[/Steel Production]]

*[[/Terran Tourist Transport]]
*[[/Tourist Hotel]]

*[[/Worm Soil Factory]]
*[[/Retirement community]]
*[[/Medical treatment]]

*[[/Building & construction facility]]

== Studies in feasibility ==
[[/Lunar base light cycles]]

==External Resources:==
* http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
* http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm
:Maybe some of our peer teams local designs would be eligible for this NASA design competition or maybe just practice here locally and then go compete globally?
* [[w:International_Space_Settlement_Design_Competition|International Space Settlement Design Competition]]

==Background information:==
* Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moondust_060223.html]
* TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/DegradeLunarVacuum.html]

[[Category:Business learning projects]]
[[Category:Learning projects]]

Lunar Boom Town/LOX Domestic and Exports

2007-09-22T18:25:05Z

71.161.23.142: new section

It is an interesting fact that if you heat lunar regolith to the proper temperature it releases oxygen as some of the minerals breakdown. This oxygen can then be cooled to a liquid and bottled.

There is an interesting NASA contest to design a tiny lox extraction plant for a demonstrator. [http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/air_lunar_soil.html]

How can we make money off of such a common place material so easy to extract?

What can we do if others start combining lox extraction with other processes to make more efficient use of the energy consumed? Upgrade or liquidate.

==Initial Capital Investment Required==

== Market Analysis ==

Who can we sell Lunar Lox to?
* Local Settlers
* NASA Scientists
* LEO/Lunar Tourists [http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/tourism_in_low_earth_orbit_the_trigger_for_commercial_development.shtml] [http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_future_of_lunar_tourism.shtml]
* CisLunar Industries and Settlements [http://aviationweek.typepad.com/space/2007/03/nasa_administra.html]

== Possibly Applicable Technical Papers ==

* http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/EXLibrary/DOCS/EIC034.HTML

* http://web.utk.edu/~pgi/lunar/page1.html A slide show explaining what is in lunar soils and how to process the content to acquire oxygen, hydrogen and rocket feul.

* http://www2.potsdam.edu/exochemistry/process.htm A summary of various techniques of producing oxygen from regolith.

[[Category:Lunar Boom Town]]

Lunar Boom Town/LOX Domestic and Exports

2007-09-22T18:23:59Z

71.161.23.142: /* Possibly Applicable Technical Papers */ link to summary of chem processes applicable to extracting o2

It is an interesting fact that if you heat lunar regolith to the proper temperature it releases oxygen as some of the minerals breakdown. This oxygen can then be cooled to a liquid and bottled.

There is an interesting NASA contest to design a tiny lox extraction plant for a demonstrator. [http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/air_lunar_soil.html]

How can we make money off of such a common place material so easy to extract?

What can we do if others start combining lox extraction with other processes to make more efficient use of the energy consumed? Upgrade or liquidate.

== Market Analysis ==

Who can we sell Lunar Lox to?
* Local Settlers
* NASA Scientists
* LEO/Lunar Tourists [http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/tourism_in_low_earth_orbit_the_trigger_for_commercial_development.shtml] [http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_future_of_lunar_tourism.shtml]
* CisLunar Industries and Settlements [http://aviationweek.typepad.com/space/2007/03/nasa_administra.html]

== Possibly Applicable Technical Papers ==

* http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/EXLibrary/DOCS/EIC034.HTML

* http://web.utk.edu/~pgi/lunar/page1.html A slide show explaining what is in lunar soils and how to process the content to acquire oxygen, hydrogen and rocket feul.

* http://www2.potsdam.edu/exochemistry/process.htm A summary of various techniques of producing oxygen from regolith.

[[Category:Lunar Boom Town]]