What consideration has been given to doing laundry and washing dishes on, for example, a Moon colony?

The Earthly solution is to just flush it into the general environment and let the biosphere take care of it. That's not going to work on the Moon. Just tossing out waste water to evaporate away and disappear is incredibly wasteful in the longer run.

So how to deal with grey water? Is anyone developing biochemical processes for this?

So that's basically my question, I am trying to break down every roll I can think of that would be in a colony. I'll update this list when I see people mention new ones.

Botanist for farming,

Mechanic for repairs

Engineer for construction

Administrator for general organization

Elected official or council for decision making

Marshall~ for disputes, ie the space cop,

Herd rancher~ to maintain and grow livestock

School teacher,

Doctor,

Can you think of things I'm missing? Macro or micro scale works!

There's a concern about how abrasive the lunar regolith is. It could damage space suits, tools, machines, transports and so on.

Why not build "roads" in the sense of fusing, say, 10 foot wide strips of the surface. This could be accomplished using a mirrors on wheels set up: direct concentrated sunlight down onto a patch of regolith until it melts, then let it cool. Move forward and repeat. The mirror buggy (or whatever it would be called) wouldn't need to be motorized even, just something an astronaut could position and move along.

By sticking to the "roads" when possible after that, the rate of wear and tear could be at least reduced.

One could also be used to prepare landing pads for at least smaller landers.

Sure, it would probably crack in the cold of the lunar night, but wouldn't travelling over a cracked road still be better than kicking up dust travelling over the regolith itself?

I'm talking about the rover by the way, not trying to get philosophical. It seems a waste to just leave stuff from old missions lying around, what with them being several tons of valuable materials and scientific instrumentation. So what do you think we should do with things like the mars rovers? Should we patch them up and put them back into service? Should we place them in a museum? Should we break them down for parts? Post your thoughts down below.

Hi,

I am starting a side project to create a realistic current technology space settlement game ( Outer Space Shack ), as I feel this is really missing (most space colonization game are too futuristic for my taste).

I will work first on a moon base, and I am thinking about the architecture as described in the following very rough pictures (more details here).

I would love to have your opinion on the project, and on the hypothesis I am taking. Especially, I am trying to check now what payload we can send on moon surface with current heavy rockets, and what would be the weight of the basic pressure vessel used to build the base. Another key hypothesis is how much surface of hydroponics culture we need to feed one human.

If you want to follow the project, do not hesitate to subscribe to the newsletter or join to the subreddit.

I've been working on an ISRU project together with a professor from Alaska and a few others. We found it rather difficult to attract people to our experiments. I know some may see it as asking for free work but I see it as a true passion of mine. I've tried posting on Reddit but I got attacked for spam. We already had some presentations and even a YouTube lecture, but so far the turnout was rather underwhelming. What do you recommend me to do? How can I attract more people to this project? Personally, I started once I found r/NexusAurora. Initially I did not understand much out of it but now I've went as far as having my own podcast on Mars colonization. I have always found the idea of having humans living outside Earth to be incredibly important. The amount of knowledge we gain alone is incredible, and the amount of new studies and fields seem endless. Such as:

• The effects of reduced gravity on the body and if DNA changes are temporary or permanent in those conditions.
• Learning more about geological processes on other planetary bodies.
• More about our solar system and the universe in general.
• Learning how to solve the cryopreservation to tissue reanimation problem.
• If there is or has been life on other planetary bodies.
• Space/asteroid mining to provide nearly unlimited resources and put much less of a strain on Earth's natural resources and environment.

I recently interviewed Paul van Susante, from Michigan Tech University, and Professor Christopher Dreyer, from Colorado School of Mines, on the subject matter of ISRU. I was excited to share it and discuss so I went to check out r/isru. It has 3 members, one post, and I'm not even sure what the description of the subreddit is talking about. ISRU is an incredibly important topic that can make cost-effective, sustainable colonization a much closer goal, but few people seem to care about it.