The Moon
Over the Moon and keen to know more about our celestial neighbour that you're considering buying a piece of? If so, then keep reading! :)
INTRODUCING LUNAR CITY
Lunar City is the name of the future settlement that contains all Moon land claims sold through our firm. It is located near the Moon’s south pole (on the side that faces earth) at:
AREA: M-7QUADRANT: HOTELLATITUDE: 56-60° SouthLONGITUDE: 14-18° WestLOT NUMBERS: 318, 319 and 320 (each is 1,777.58 acres in size).
The image below is of a slab of the southern hemisphere of the Moon (on the side that faces earth) and shows where Lunar City approximately sits.
Lunar City is the name of the future settlement that contains all Moon land claims sold through our firm. It is located near the Moon’s south pole (on the side that faces earth) at:
AREA: M-7QUADRANT: HOTELLATITUDE: 56-60° SouthLONGITUDE: 14-18° WestLOT NUMBERS: 318, 319 and 320 (each is 1,777.58 acres in size).
The image below is of a slab of the southern hemisphere of the Moon (on the side that faces earth) and shows where Lunar City approximately sits.
More information on the Moon in general, including what makes it so appealing, is below.
ABOUT THE MOON
ABOUT THE MOON
• It has a surface area of about 38 million square km. This is roughly the size of North America and South America combined.• It is located about 384,000km from earth.
• 40% of its weight is oxygen.• It is heavily crater-covered.• Minerals such as iron can be mined from its rocks.• It has no atmosphere but people can live on it by residing in domed buildings that protect them from the sun’s harmful radiation and which contain vegetation for both food and oxygen, and water for drinking that is sourced from extracting oxygen from underground and mixing it with hydrogen brought over from earth.• Scientists believe that there are deposits of ice in permanently shaded areas of its craters near its south pole, which could help with sourcing water for future colonies.• It takes about three days to get there by rocket ship (using 1960s technology from the American Apollo space programme).• Usually, the same side of it faces earth all the time.• It has a two-week day and night cycle.• We have its gravity to thank for the earth’s tides and how it keeps our planet at a 23.5° angle to give us our seasons.• Its gravity is about six times weaker than that of earth.• The American Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin) were the first men to land on the Moon on 20 July 1969. No one has been to the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission there in December 1972. However, some countries with space programmes (including America, China and India) have their sights on the Moon along with some wealthy entrepreneurs, such as Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin.
Check out the below video to see what living on the Moon could be like.
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WHY INVEST IN THE MOON?
One may ask why we should think about colonising space in the first place, considering the costs and dangers involved. There are some highly credible reasons, which are discussed below.
Firstly, it is exactly the challenge mankind needs at this point in time. For example, when the Apollo astronauts went to the Moon in the 1960s, the entire project cost $20 billion US – and this was back then! However, it pumped a lot of money into the American economy, generated numerous inventions that are now commonplace and gave us satellite technology that helped to bring about affordable and practical telecommunications, and, therefore, the Information Age as we know it today! It is now hard for many of us to imagine our daily lives without portable computers, mobile phones and the internet.
One may ask why we should think about colonising space in the first place, considering the costs and dangers involved. There are some highly credible reasons, which are discussed below.
Firstly, it is exactly the challenge mankind needs at this point in time. For example, when the Apollo astronauts went to the Moon in the 1960s, the entire project cost $20 billion US – and this was back then! However, it pumped a lot of money into the American economy, generated numerous inventions that are now commonplace and gave us satellite technology that helped to bring about affordable and practical telecommunications, and, therefore, the Information Age as we know it today! It is now hard for many of us to imagine our daily lives without portable computers, mobile phones and the internet.
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Some may still argue that the $20 billion US (think about how much that would be today when adjusted for inflation) could have been put to better use if pumped into solving a major world problem, such as poverty in developing countries. If it only costs a mere $500 NZ (or thereabouts) to feed a starving child for a year, why should we invest countless billions into a dead rock up in the sky??? This is a very good point and an absolute no-brainer for anyone who is truly human but, in practice, the story is a bit different. The money put into the US Space Program brought about a whole new era of technology and a lot of economic growth (as mentioned above) whereas money sent to developing nations that desperately need it can sometimes get gobbled up by corrupt government officials and corporates who think they are gods. What is left for those who are actually suffering can be very little indeed - if anything. We have all heard of charities who put more of their donations into their running costs instead of the actual causes they claim to be fighting for. What we need to do for developing nations (instead of just handing them billions) is teach them how to survive and thrive on their own local opportunities and resources, so they can do just that and become both independent and self-sufficient. Otherwise, they will always be depending on us. As the old saying goes: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. Good examples of countries that have done this are China and India. Such countries were labelled as Third World as recently as the 1980s for China and the 1990s for India but are now being labelled as upcoming superpowers that can compete with the United States and Europe!
In addition, colonising the Moon will provide us with a ‘backup’ of life on earth so if a global disaster destroys one of these planetary bodies the other is there to continue existing. On this note, many will argue that we have no right to spoil another planetary body in the same way that we have done with earth. However, the Moon (and Mars for that matter) are seriously different in the sense that they are already dead so by colonising them we would be giving them life - not taking it away. If there is anything we can do to make up for all the destruction we have caused to life on this planet, would it not be to spread it to other planets and make it less endangered and longer lasting?
In addition, colonising the Moon will provide us with a ‘backup’ of life on earth so if a global disaster destroys one of these planetary bodies the other is there to continue existing. On this note, many will argue that we have no right to spoil another planetary body in the same way that we have done with earth. However, the Moon (and Mars for that matter) are seriously different in the sense that they are already dead so by colonising them we would be giving them life - not taking it away. If there is anything we can do to make up for all the destruction we have caused to life on this planet, would it not be to spread it to other planets and make it less endangered and longer lasting?
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