• Question: If there was food, water and oxygen on the moon could we live on it?

    Asked by hannah banana to Eimear, James, Jonathan, Lána, Willi on 26 Feb 2018.
    • Photo: William O'Connor

      William O'Connor answered on 26 Feb 2018:

      That’s a good question!
      The answer is Yes: if we had food, water and oxygen, life should be possible.
      There would still be lots of difficulties however.
      For example, if you are on the sunny side of the Moon, it can get very hot, but on the dark side it is very cold.
      So to live you’d also need some way to control your temperature.
      You would also be more exposed to radiation coming from space, because the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field protects it, but the Moon has no protection like that.
      Also you might get tired of the landscape after a while!

    • Photo: Eimear Tuohy

      Eimear Tuohy answered on 26 Feb 2018:

      If we created bases which could recycle water and oxygen then we could possible grow food The gravity is 1/6 of Earth’s gravity, so that might make things difficult/interesting once you walk outside the base 🙂 So it would mean lots of time inside 🙂

    • Photo: Lána Salmon

      Lána Salmon answered on 27 Feb 2018:

      Yes but as the guys said, it would be hard! Gravity, heat and radiation protection is definitely needed to survive up there. We don’t have the protective blanket of the atmosphere to block harmful light from the sun, so it could be dangerous.

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