/sci/ - Science & Math

I think the biggest problem with this is that "easy" as it might be to Terraform the moon, it is still always going to be "easier" merely "Terraform" a moon-base dome, or cave or whatever.

In other words. People interested to pay and do this, would also be interested in getting their results, right here, right now. If you are going to be introducing bacteria, and plants and crap, you might as well be doing so to a big greenhouse thing, which will be complete in 20 years or so and you will be able to see it being used. And when it runs out of habitable space -then- you expand it further, with the demant acutally being there.

Versus, waiting at least 500 years or so, for the Terraforming thing to be done, before someone, somewhen enjoys it.

Perhaps if the population of such moonbases reached several million they'd be interested in doing it as a sort of hobby, side project. However that event (reasons for the moon to have a population of millions), is so far into the future, I suspect Terraforming will be a meaningless concept. In the end, it will probably turn out to be easier to augment the bodies around our brains, rather than try to change the big honking balls of matter around to our (very limited) liking.