This is John Batchelor, a conversation with Rutgers Professor Haim Ben Roy about his vision of colonizing, settling on, remaining on the to get to the moon, where and how.

Haim is the author of building habitats on the moon, engineering approaches to lunar settlements.

Very elaborate.

I recommend it highly.

It's been out for a number of years. This is a follow-up of studies

he's done about how to live on the moon, surface, not underneath. The critical detail here is that

the surface of the moon is regolith.

It's extremely poisonous and very, very sharp.

Has to be dealt with. Can be dealt with. Has to be.

However, in this instance, we're talking to Hymn about

the speculation about growing vegetables on the moon but more interestingly about

the South Pole recent Landers there private and big space have pointed to the South Bowl being

Beachfront property where everybody wants to be because the assumption is

there's water ice somewhere in the craters that are never out of

shadow. However, so far not discovered, there are elements of water in the

regolith, in the South Pole, he has mixed opinions. Here's Haim Ben Arroya about this race for the South

Pole that might be in the wrong direction, and what we in fact need on the surface of the

Moon is a good place for robots. I'm Ben Arroya building

habitats on the moon commenting on the south pole more of this later hotel

Mars. In my view it's always been sort of touch and go as far as the South Pole and and there is there are large

question marks on the availability of water ice or water at that location but even if there was a lot of

water there the problem is that it's a very

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