To ask if you’re prepared to help establish a Moon base in return for £25 million and £100 Amazon voucher?

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Hypothetical question.

The government want people to test out the feasibility of humans living on the Moon. They establish a Moon base and are looking for 100 individuals to move to the Moon for a 2 year period to make a go of the base.

During the 2 years no return visits to Earth are permitted but at the end of 2 years, the individuals are given the option of staying or returning to Earth.

The base is fully set up with leisure facilities, communal areas, and individuals will be given roles within the community. Accommodation is in the form of small one bedroom living pods with their own kitchen and bathroom.

Food is grown on the Moon in vast technologically advanced greenhouses, and water is also filtered and extracted. There are emergency supplies of food and water if anything goes drastically wrong.

The downside is that if there are any negative effects of living in space, any accidents, or it all goes spectacularly wrong, the government cannot be liable. It’s entirely your own risk.

In return for their time, the volunteers will receive a payment of £25 million and £100 Amazon voucher on completion of the two years.

AIBU to ask if you’re going to volunteer?

I think that would entirely depend on how advanced construction would be. If the base is already fully liveable as you describe, then no one will be offered £25million to go settle there- it will be a playground for the mega rich (as always) and THEY will be more likely to pay that sum in order to secure their condo with a panoramic Earth-rise view. So, in your scenario, it would be a typical mercenary danger pay off with poor sods living in space tents and risking explosive decompression on a daily basis... Not for me - but I'm sure people would apply.

I imagine the base would be built - or at least started - by robots.

Can I bring my dog?

I don't think we have much choice in the matter!

The moon and mars are probably the limits of how far humans will travel, and I doubt we'll ever have a meaningful, self-sustaining, colony on either.

If I was younger, early 20s, yes I’d do it. Sounds no different from my time working at a ski resort 😂

Definitely not. I've watched enough films to know that all but one or two of us would end up dead, possibly involving black goo.

1. Is it going to be televised?
2. If we don't couple up, do we get sent home early?
3. Where do I sign up?

Ds plans on moving to mars when he is older. I could probably bribe him to change his planned location gor th voucher and pocket the 25 mil 😀.

No, I've seen enough films to know this would not end well. If not aliens then everyone killing each other when resources run low

No thanks, almost guaranteed to get cancer due to radiation exposure.

Well since you'd be unlikely to be coming back ....

I think any habitation would need to be buried under the surface. Not just to shield from radiation, but meteorites and other cosmic debris which could ruin your day.

I think long before this nonsense, you'd have to have a regular shuttle service to the moon.

I'd go but I'm old so they probably wouldn't want me, I would give the money to DS but I would have to live 7 years to stop the government getting their grubby hands on any of it

If you stay on the moon you best hope Amazon develop some mini space drones to deliver 😂

Well that would be how I would expect the components for the robot-built base to be delivered ...

No, I’ve watched Dr Who…

After seeing how long they left those astronauts stranded on the space station.. I'm alreet for that like.

I'm a pilates teacher. Not sure how that will work with different gravity. I can pioneer gravity pilates! Ok, I'm in.

Nothing, not even the promise of £100 Amazon voucher, would get me into a claustrophobic rocket ship. Nor to live in a place that needs artificial oxygen to allow me to survive.

Not a chance.

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that....

If my kids were grown up then yes but not till then.

Yes, or you'd return to find the Statue of Liberty poking out of the sand...

Isn't there usually a loophole in the contract so that by the time you get back, if you get back, you are no longer allowed the £2M? I want certainty at this stage of life. My home is paid for, I'm retired, I have enough to live on, and I love my life. I wouldn't trade that for the unknown with added discomfort. I would watch the live stream though and the individual updates from that room with the chair.

Clever you 🙄.

Don't bother. I offered that but it was a bigly NO from him...and to think I bent over backwards for that guy... (That was a bigly NO too).

That makes it sound better, there will be no teenagers