Why live on the moon?

[Fartsniffage]

Free cheese.

[Valentine Z]

I want to moon people from Earth, from the Moon.

[Scomagia]

I want to moon people from Earth, from the Moon.

Unless you have a very large ass, I wouldn't expect that anyone would see you mooning them from the moon.

[Valentine Z]

I want to moon people from Earth, from the Moon.

Unless you have a very large ass, I wouldn't expect that anyone would see you mooning them from the moon.

Guess I will settle with pitching my own national flag, then. It now belongs to Valentine Z, and soon it will just be me, and my cats.

[Union of Sovereign States and Republics]

Unless you have a very large ass, I wouldn't expect that anyone would see you mooning them from the moon.

Guess I will settle with pitching my own national flag, then. It now belongs to Valentine Z, and soon it will just be me, and my cats.

not if i, the soviet union, have anything to say about it

and unlike last time, we'll use actual rockets and not gushers this time

[Salus Maior]

The thing is, though, and many people seem to not think this when they say "I'd love to leave this planet and go to Mars!" which is that they would be there for the rest of their lives. Also, there's a very good chance you'll die there, too.

Eh, to be fair, that was true of the Americas too when Europeans discovered it.

[Petrolheadia]

So you can listen to Walking on the Moon while walking on the Moon.

Or listen to Drinking Like Keith Moon while drinking like Keith Moon on the Moon.

[Scomagia]

So you can listen to Walking on the Moon while walking on the Moon.

Or listen to Drinking Like Keith Moon while drinking like Keith Moon on the Moon.

Eh. I'd prefer to listen to Moon Baby while making a moon baby.

[Kubra]

So the settlers can declare independence from their sneering terran masters

[The Great-German Empire]

So the settlers can declare independence from their sneering terran masters

Isn't there an awesome kinda-libertarian book about that?

[Bonenburg]

To get away from it all.

[Luna Amore]

Nah, I don't see any need to live there. No love lost between me and the moon.

[Scomagia]

Nah, I don't see any need to live there. No love lost between me and the moon.

For that subtle punwork, you're banished to the moon mines.

[Aeritai]

So we can do the moon walk dance on the moon.

[Ethel mermania]

Nah, I don't see any need to live there. No love lost between me and the moon.

The fingers say no, but the avatar says otherwise

[Union of Sovereign States and Republics]

So the settlers can declare independence from their sneering terran masters

Isn't there an awesome kinda-libertarian book about that?

Yeah, it's called Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

[The Emerald Legion]

The thing is, though, and many people seem to not think this when they say "I'd love to leave this planet and go to Mars!" which is that they would be there for the rest of their lives. Also, there's a very good chance you'll die there, too.

Why would you want to come back to this bug and plant infested hellworld when you could go to a place with neither and stay there for the rest of your life?

[Union of Sovereign States and Republics]

The thing is, though, and many people seem to not think this when they say "I'd love to leave this planet and go to Mars!" which is that they would be there for the rest of their lives. Also, there's a very good chance you'll die there, too.

Why would you want to come back to this bug and plant infested hellworld when you could go to a place with neither and stay there for the rest of your life?

because plants smell nice and sometimes the bees let me pet them

[Trollzyn the Infinite]

Less people.

This is both a pro and a con.

[The Black Forrest]

If given the opportunity to live on the moon or mars; I would. Why not? Adventure of a new land.

[Kuominwave]

Less people on the moon. I can probably freely pirate Endgame w/o the Space Police chasing me.

[Hamstan]

"Science isn't about why! It's about why not!" -Cave Johnson

[Nolo gap]

to study grey rocks, or for the real estate to build things.
no reason for anyone who isn't either a researcher or wanna be instillation artist though.

unless there's maybe good paying jobs processing grey rocks.
i'm not sure i'd trust being hired for grunt work in an environment that requires a space suit though.

but yah, if i could have a place where i could make things and there weren't building and zoning codes against doing so,
which of course there would be eventually, but for one thing, there is no wildlife as far as i know,
to risk crowding out of its habitat there.

so while construction would have to be strictly regulated within the domes and existing pressurized areas,
there's no reason to expect there to have to be outside of them.

might be a good place to build all sorts of research equipment too, like linear accelerators and other hardware for testing and measuring physics theories.

i don't think the moon would be a good place to look for adventure, other then adventures in scientific research, there just isn't the diversity of resources.

mars though, is a whole nother ball of sand and rock, and except for lack of macro vegitation, enough diversity of resources to feel almost homelike.
as much room to make things as earth and almost as much things to make things out of.

life on either though, whatever amusements you require,
you would have to bring them with you, or at least the skills and knowledge to make them out of what you could find.

adventure as an idea, i suspect would fade rather quickly when faced with the realities of living in either place would require.
although again, mars does offer opportunities luna does not.

one could build presurized labrynths to explore on either, but the point is, at least on the moon, one would have to build them.
mars does have a bunch of places i would be very curious to see more of. the moon not so much.

[ImperialRussia]

Because no one dared to colonize it

[Bassoe]

Same principle as Seasteading. The moon is currently inhabited by a total of zero people who ideologically disagree with me. If I can get myself, a population of ideologically likeminded volunteers, the required infrastructure to sustain ourselves and weapons enough to keep out claimjumping competitor colonies, we can build a utopian society in accordance with how we think society should be.