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This is John Bachelor, conversation with Professor Hyme Ben-eroy of Rutgers University

about the challenges of a moon outpost, a moon settlement, physical and psychological.

The professor lays it out here.

He's written several books about habitats on the moon and what needs to be done.

NASA's planning an outpost sometime by the next decade, perhaps as late as 2040.

In any event, preparation is all.

Here's time to outline some of the major challenges.

This isn't science fiction anymore.

The moon is a hostile environment.

More later.

So there's a lot of stress, both psychological and physiological.

On the psychological level, there are the issues of living in very confined quarters.

You know, basically initially maybe 10 square feet per person, the initial habitats may have two or three people in them,

and the volume in which they live may be no larger than a single room, a small room. So big challenges there. Then the stress of

being far away from home in a very dangerous environment, far away from family. The environment

is very noisy. There's machinery in these habitats, so it's a pretty stressful

environment from that point of view. Physiologically, there's a number of issues that are

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