There's no wide-scale alteration of atmosphere, temperature, surface, etc.
Like really - most people don't realize that Moon and Mars present very different environments with unique opportunities and challenges, such as:
- hard vacuum vs thin atmosphere - different communication latency to Earth - more vs less solar energy - 14 day day vs 25 hour day - abrasive dust vs less abrasive dust suspended in the atmosphere - 1/6 g vs 1/3 g
If we want to make use of the worlds of the Solar system, we will need to learn how to thrive in both sets of environments - many asteroids and space station operations in general are closer to the Moon while various gas giant moons (like Titan) and to a degree Venus are closer to Mars.
1) "There are comparably large temperature swings on both worlds."
.. ok? A benefit the moon has that mars doesn't have is .. both planets have the same temperature swings? What?
2) "The surface gravity on both worlds is very low"
And again .. how is this a benefit that the moon has that mars doesn't? If anything, Mars's higher, more earth-like gravity, is (arguable) more beneficial.
3) "Someone living on the Moon would have to contend with days and nights that are ~2 weeks long apiece, as opposed to Mars’s almost Earth-like 24 hour and 37 minute days"
This just blatantly doesn't make sense. How is is at advantage for the moon to have completely abnormal day lengths compared to mars?
4) "And an observer on the Moon’s near, Earth-facing side would always observe a “full Earth” in their sky, day or night."
And again .. ok? An "advantage" of the moon is seeing a full earth in the sky? In what way does this give you an advantage?
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It almost feels like LLM hallucination, just saying stuff that's semantically correct but which has no meaning, no connection to reality, just words.
bell-cot•1h ago