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[[Image:Mooncolony.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An artists impression of a colony on the moon.]]
[[Image:Mooncolony.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An artists impression of a colony on the moon.]]
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 [[w:Boomtown|boomtown]] will prosper whether in a virtual simulation or actually on the moon.
It may be expensive to live on the moon. What kinds of businesses, factories, and exports would it take to pay for the necessary imports? What kinds of skills would be needed? We need to figure all this stuff out before our [[w: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 gathering and using appropriately sources of information.   Remember to report back creatively to assist the entire community.   Use of open/free[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_design] design methodologies is encouraged to enhance probability of success and shorten development timelines. Primarily we are interested in living and working on the moon, not licensing technologies to others to do so. Public collaboration and publishing of results is intended to help create future space settlements with dynamic successful economies.
Help us budding business tycoons find out and figure it out by gathering and using appropriately sources of information. Remember to report back creatively to assist the entire community. Use of [[w:Open design|open/free design]] methodologies is encouraged to enhance probability of success and shorten development timelines. Primarily, we are interested in living and working on the moon, not licensing technologies for others to do so. Public collaboration and publishing of results is intended to help create future space settlements with dynamic successful economies.


==Potential Triggers for Lunar Boom Towns==
==Potential Triggers for Lunar Boom Towns==
* Space Tourism[http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/tourism_in_low_earth_orbit_the_trigger_for_commercial_development.shtml]
* Space Tourism[http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/tourism_in_low_earth_orbit_the_trigger_for_commercial_development.shtml]
* A committment to extensively explore or settle Mars.[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mars/mars_colonize_terraform.html]
* A commitment to extensively explore or settle Mars.[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mars/mars_colonize_terraform.html]
* A decision to build a [[w:Space elevator|space elevator]].
* A decision to build a [[w:Space elevator|space elevator]].
* Global warming: A shift to solar power satellites[http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/index.htm] as part of carbon reduction efforts.
* Global warming: A shift to solar power satellites[http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/index.htm] as part of carbon reduction efforts.
* Advances in Nuclear Fusion using He3 in Feul Cycle. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/18/fs.moonmining/index.html]
* Advances in Nuclear Fusion using He3 in Feul Cycle. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/18/fs.moonmining/index.html]
* [[Wikipedia:Asteroid mining|Asteroid mining]]


This project focuses on [[w:business plan|business plan]]s, evaluation of business models, technical approaches, and risk factors.   


This project focuses on [[w:business plan]]s and evaluation of business models and technical approaches and risk factors.  
There is a budding business plan course – [[The Business Plan]] – that may be a bit too technical for our purposes. Wikibooks has some detailed information (Wikibooks: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. A business plan is merely a communications tool to help tell others how we plan to conduct our business.


There is a budding business plan course [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/The_Business_Plan] that may be a bit too technical for our purposes.  Wikibooks 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.  A business plan is merely a communications tool to help tell others how we conduct our business.
Participants will also find [[Principles of Marketing|marketing]] concepts and skills helpful in identifying and analyzing target market segments.
 
Participants will also find marketing[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Principles_of_Marketing] concepts and skills helpful in identifying and analyzing target market segments.


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


* [[cisLunarFreighter]]  Java guys requested some jpegs or pngs for graphics! Post samples here or there or somewhere you think appropriate.
[http://www.mosdownload.com/play.m3u?sf=224737 The current theme song] is by Sharam. We are considering remixing it with some drums to represent discrete large missions abruptly 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 discussion page so others may evaluate it as a replacement.
*[[/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.


== Preliminary Site Map ==
== Preliminary Site Map ==
===Design activity===
Using [http://simkin.asu.edu/clem/ online lunar data] find a prime location for our boomtown. Remember, it should be close to [http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/water/moon_ice.JPG resources] and future customers.


Design activity:  Using online lunar data[http://simkin.asu.edu/clem/] find a prime location for our boomtown. Remember it should be close to resources and future customers.[http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/water/moon_ice.JPG]
[http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/moon_mountain_020326.html Two scientists pick...]  [http://www.lpod.org/?m=20070512 A map with Malapert labeled.]


Two scientists pick.[http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/moon_mountain_020326.html] A map with Malapert labeled.[http://www.lpod.org/?m=20070512]
[[Image:Thumb_long86lat0Clementine.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]


[[Image:Thumb_long86lat0Clementine.jpg]]
[http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/water/moon_ice.JPG South Pole view marked with suspected water ice locations.]
 
 
South Pole view marked with suspected water ice locations.[http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/water/moon_ice.JPG]


==Open Entrepreneurial Ideas==
==Open Entrepreneurial Ideas==
What business could I/you/they/we startup or run in a Lunar Boom Town?
What business could I/you/they/we startup or run in a Lunar Boom Town?
 
* [[Air Plant]]
*[[Air Plant]]
* [[/Aluminum Production/]]
*[[/Aluminum Production/]]
* [[/Begillion resource harvesting/|Bagillion resource harvesting]]
*[[/Begillion resource harvesting/|Bagillion resource harvesting]]
* [[/Boarding Habitat/]]
*[[/Boarding Habitat/]]
* [[The space adventure group]]
*[[The space adventure group]]
* [[/Boomtown Ice Skating Rink/]]
*[[/Boomtown Ice Skating Rink/]]
* [[/Boomtown Plaza Bakery/]]  Sample executive s ummary.[http://www.bplans.com/Sample_Business_Plans/Restaurant_Cafe_And_Bakery_Business_Plans/Bakery_Business_Plan/executive_summary.cfm]
*[[/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]
* [[/Carbon commodity imports and futures/]]
*[[/Carbon commodity imports and futures/]]
* [[/Chicken Farm/]]
*[[/Chicken Farm/]]
* [[/Communications Services/]]
*[[/Communications Services/]]
* [[/Fabbers R Us/]]
*[[/Fabbers R Us/]]
* [[/Feuling Station/]]
*[[/Feuling Station/]]
* [[/Glass Production/]]
 
* [[/Horticulture Nursery/]]
*[[/Glass Production/]]
* [[/LOX Domestic and Exports/]]
 
* [[/Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce/]]
*[[/Horticulture Nursery/]]
* [[/Outfitter Services and Supplies/]]
 
* [[/Nitrogen commodity imports and futures/]]
*[[/LOX Domestic and Exports/]]
* [[/Rabbit Ranch/]]
*[[/Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce/]]
* [[/Remote Rover Operation/]]
 
* [[/Rover Repairs & Modification/]]
*[[/Outfitter Services and Supplies/]]
* [[/Rover Outback Racing/]]
*[[/Nitrogen commodity imports and futures/]]
* [[/Human Powered Vehicles/]]
 
* [[/Satellite and Computer Wreckers/]]
*[[/Rabbit Ranch/]]
* [[/Sintered Regolith/]]
*[[/Remote Rover Operation/]]
* [[/Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement/]]
*[[/Rover Repairs & Modification/]]
* [[/Steel Production/]]
*[[/Rover Outback Racing/]]
*[[/Human Powered Vehicles/]]
*[[/Satellite and Computer Wreckers/]]
*[[/Sintered Regolith/]]
*[[/Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement/]]
*[[/Steel Production/]]
 
* [[/Terraform Station/]]
* [[/Terraform Station/]]
*[[/Terran Tourist Transport/]]
* [[/Terran Tourist Transport/]]
 
* [[/Theme Park Rover Maintenance/]]
*[[/Theme Park Rover Maintenance/]]
* [[/Tourist Hotel/]]
 
* [[/Volume developer/]]
*[[/Tourist Hotel/]]
* [[/Volume miner/]]
*[[/Volume developer/]]
* [[/Worm Soil Factory/]]
*[[/Volume miner/]]
* [[/Water plant/]]
*[[/Worm Soil Factory/]]
* [[/Retirement community/]]
*[[/Water plant/]]
* [[/Medical treatment/]]
*[[/Retirement community/]]
* [[/Building & construction facility/]]
*[[/Medical treatment/]]
 
*[[/Building & construction facility/]]


== Studies in feasibility ==
== Studies in feasibility ==
* [[/Lunar base light cycles/]]
* [[/Lunar base light cycles/]]
==Useful Open/Free Design Tools==
*Dia[http://live.gnome.org/Dia] is free software for creating diagrams.  It may be useful for process flow and instrumentation diagrams.


==See also==
==See also==
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* [[Wikipedia:Colonization of Mars]]
* [[Wikipedia:Colonization of Mars]]
* [[Wikipedia:Planetary habitability]]
* [[Wikipedia:Planetary habitability]]
* [[Wikipedia:International Space Settlement Design Competition]]


==External Resources:==
==External links==
* http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
* http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
* http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm
* http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm
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* http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol3/toc.html
* http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol3/toc.html


==Background information:==
===Useful Open/Free Design Tools===
* [http://live.gnome.org/Dia Dia] is free software for creating diagrams.  It may be useful for process flow and instrumentation diagrams.
 
===Background information===
* Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moondust_060223.html]
* 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]
* TANSTAFL  Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/DegradeLunarVacuum.html]

Revision as of 07:43, 26 October 2007

An artists impression of a colony on the moon.

It may be expensive to live on the moon. What kinds of businesses, factories, and exports would it take to pay for the necessary imports? What kinds of skills would 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 budding business tycoons find out and figure it out by gathering and using appropriately sources of information. Remember to report back creatively to assist the entire community. Use of open/free design methodologies is encouraged to enhance probability of success and shorten development timelines. Primarily, we are interested in living and working on the moon, not licensing technologies for others to do so. Public collaboration and publishing of results is intended to help create future space settlements with dynamic successful economies.

Potential Triggers for Lunar Boom Towns

  • Space Tourism[1]
  • A commitment to extensively explore or settle Mars.[2]
  • A decision to build a space elevator.
  • Global warming: A shift to solar power satellites[3] as part of carbon reduction efforts.
  • Advances in Nuclear Fusion using He3 in Feul Cycle. [4]
  • Asteroid mining

This project focuses on business plans, evaluation of business models, technical approaches, and risk factors.

There is a budding business plan course – The Business Plan – that may be a bit too technical for our purposes. Wikibooks has some detailed information (Wikibooks: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. A business plan is merely a communications tool to help tell others how we plan to conduct our business.

Participants will also find marketing concepts and skills helpful in identifying and analyzing target market segments.

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

The current theme song is by Sharam. We are considering remixing it with some drums to represent discrete large missions abruptly 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 discussion page so others may evaluate it as a replacement.

Preliminary Site Map

Design activity

Using online lunar data find a prime location for our boomtown. Remember, it should be close to resources and future customers.

Two scientists pick... A map with Malapert labeled.

File:Thumb long86lat0Clementine.jpg

South Pole view marked with suspected water ice locations.

Open Entrepreneurial Ideas

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

Studies in feasibility

See also

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?

Useful Open/Free Design Tools

  • Dia is free software for creating diagrams. It may be useful for process flow and instrumentation diagrams.

Background information

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