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 budding business tycoons find out and figure it out by browsing SpaceFuture.com or using other sources of information and report back creatively.

Potential Triggers for Lunar Boom Towns

• Space Tourism[1]
• A committment 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]

This project focuses on w:business plans and evaluation of business models and technical approaches and risk factors. There is a budding business plan course [5] 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.

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[6] 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 in a Lunar Boom Town?

• Air Plant
• Bagillion resource harvesting
• /Boomtown Ice Skating Rink
• /Boomtown Plaza Bakery Sample executive summary.[7]
• /Carbon commodity imports and futures
• /Chicken Farm
• /Communications Services

• /Feuling Station

• /Glass Production

• /Horticulture Nursery

• /LOX Domestic and Exports
• /Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce

• /Outfitter Services and Supplies
• /Nitrogen commodity imports and futures

• /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
• /Volume developer
• /Volume miner
• /Worm Soil Factory
• /Water plant
• /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?

• International Space Settlement Design Competition
• http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol3/toc.html

Background information:

• Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [8]
• TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [9]
• Technical Summary of a Simulation of Lunar Base Consumables [10]
• Tech Study of Requirements for a Lunar Base[11]
• http://www.kathryncramer.com/lunar_development/2004/11/maximizing_food.html