Lunar Boom Town

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 boomtown will prosper whether in a virtual simulation or actually on the moon.

Help us find out and figure it out by browsing SpaceFuture.com or using other sources of information and report back creatively.

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[1] 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?

• 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

• /Satellite and Computer Wreckers
• /Sintered Regolith
• /Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement
• /Steel Production

• /Terran Tourist Transport
• /Tourist Hotel

• /Worm Soil Factory
• /Retirement community
• /Medical treatment

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?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Settlement_Design_Competition

Background information:

• Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [2]
• TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [3]