Friday, March 18, 2016

Extraterrestrial Beings- Interstellar Quest

I think that out of a space station, a Mars colony, and a Moon colony, that a colony on the moon would be the best. I think that this will be the best option out of the three because the moon, as long as earth does not get destroyed, has the earth to orbit around which is already the perfect distance from the sun. With being the perfect distance from the sun, that means that the moon will range from how far and close it is to the sun, due to it orbiting the earth. So, by that, I expect that there will be a new kind of seasons on the moon.
Now I am going to be listing the things that humans would need inside of a space station if there was one on the moon. This station would be the shelter. The first thing I know we would need is a source of oxygen. This could be possible with the use of plants that could grow in the space station. The way we could get plants in space, trees, bushes, and etc., is that we could bring soil up from Earth on a spaceship. The soil could also be made with a mix of the decomposing food that was left over from the trip, the crews feces from the trip, and the soil on the moon. The Moon’s soil contains a lot of oxygen and silicon and these both positively affect plants. The next resource we would need to cover is water. Water could be made from a purifier that connects to all of the bathrooms. It would then take the urine of the people and purify it. Urine is 95% water so a large amount of water could be regained from urination. I also would plan to create my station on the bright side of the planet or close to the line between the dark side and the light side of the moon so that part of the station could be receiving direct sunlight and the other side wouldn’t. The sunlight would help with the plants that I plan to grow inside of the space station. I would also have solar panels on the part of the station that is exposed to the sun so that I can collect power for the station and all of the appliances inside of it. The next thing would be the plants that we would have on the station. There would be no animals because it would be a vegetarian colony. The plants would be brought from earth and would be planted in the soil that I had made. Inside of my station is where I would have my farm and there would be a giant thick glass dome for sunlight to get to the crops. Also, there will be a carbon dioxide vacuum system that sucks up all of the CO₂ and feed it to the plants. There will also be a radio tower like set up on top of the station so that we can receive signals from other areas in space and from the earth.


Here is the link to my station: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/lWO4eTMxNSb-moon-colony-station

Here is the link to my notes: Here

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