Can humans survive on moon?

Although you might think it would be cool, humans could not live on the moon! (Maybe one day in the future…) The moon has almost no atmosphere, so there's no air for us to breathe. There is no water on the moon either, and we need to drink water to survive.

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Can a human live on the Moon?

It would be too heavy. Instead, they would have to make much of what they would need to survive out of the extra-terrestrial resources to hand. Unfortunately, these resources are pretty barren.

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How long could a human survive on the Moon?

However, it seems important to have precise measurements confirming that astronauts can spend 6 months on the Moon without exceeding the legally required limits of NASA in case they live in protected bases.

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Can we breathe on the Moon?

Oxygen required for breathing is not present on Moon's atmosphere. So, we cannot breathe on the Moon.

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Can anything survive on the Moon?

Today, the authors wrote, the moon is totally inhospitable to life. It has, they wrote, "no significant atmosphere, no liquid water on its surface, no magnetosphere to protect its surface from solar wind and cosmic radiation, no polymeric chemistry [the building blocks of life], and it is subject to large ...

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Would you live on the moon? - Alex Gendler

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Can we live on Earth without moon?

Without a moon the tilt of our earth's axis would vary over time. This could create some very wild weather. Right now, thanks to our moon, our axis stays tilted at twenty-three point five degrees. But without the moon the earth might tilt too far over or hardly tilt at all leading to no seasons or even extreme seasons.

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Can Earth survive without the Moon?

Without the Moon stabilising our tilt, it is possible that the Earth's tilt could vary wildly. It would move from no tilt (which means no seasons) to a large tilt (which means extreme weather and even ice ages).

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Can you light a fire on the moon?

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Now since the moon has no atmosphere of its own, it lacks Oxygen. Therefore, it is not possible to light fire on the moon.

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Is the flag still on Moon?

Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have shown that the American flags left on the Moon by Apollo astronauts are still standing– except for the Apollo 11 mission, which Buzz Aldrin reported as being knocked over by engine exhaust as Apollo 11 lifted off.

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Can you hear sound on the moon?

Sound waves need a medium to travel. As there is no atmosphere or medium on the moon, that's why no sound can be heard on the moon.

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Would a body decompose in space?

In space we can assume that there would be no external organisms such as insects and fungi to break down the body, but we still carry plenty of bacteria with us. Left unchecked, these would rapidly multiply and cause putrefaction of a corpse on board the shuttle or the ISS.

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What planet can humans live on?

Among the stunning variety of worlds in our solar system, only Earth is known to host life.

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Can humans survive on Mars?

But on Mars, carbon dioxide is 96% of the air! Meanwhile, Mars has almost no oxygen; it's only one-tenth of one percent of the air, not nearly enough for humans to survive. If you tried to breathe on the surface of Mars without a spacesuit supplying your oxygen – bad idea – you would die in an instant.

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Who lives on the moon?

Is there life on the Moon? No. The 12 astronauts who walked on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s are the only living beings to have set foot on Earth's satellite.

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What planet can we live on besides Earth?

Besides Earth, Mars would be the easiest planet to live on. Mars has liquid water, a habitable temperature and a bit of an atmosphere that can help protect humans from cosmic and solar radiation. The gravity of Mars is 38% that of the Earth.

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Can we live on Titan?

Additionally, Titan's rivers, lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane might serve as a habitable environment on the moon's surface, though any life there would likely be very different from Earth's life.

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What objects are left on the Moon?

Some of it is waste from the trip that the astronauts dumped when they got to their destination. Aside from trash—from food packaging to wet wipes—nearly 100 packets of human urine and excrement have been discarded. The Apollo astronauts also dumped tools and television equipment that they no longer needed.

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Why haven't we been back to the Moon?

But in 1970 future Apollo missions were cancelled. Apollo 17 became the last manned mission to the Moon, for an indefinite amount of time. The main reason for this was money. The cost of getting to the Moon was, ironically, astronomical.

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Can a telescope see the flag on the Moon?

Yes, the flag is still on the moon, but you can't see it using a telescope. I found some statistics on the size of lunar equipment in a Press Kit for the Apollo 16 mission. The flag is 125 cm (4 feet) long, and you would need an optical wavelength telescope around 200 meters (~650 feet) in diameter to see it.

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Why can't you whistle on the moon?

Because there is nothing out in space (like an atmosphere), the sound waves from one astronaut's whistling can't travel over to the other astronaut's ears. That's why the astronauts use radios to communicate—even if they're floating in space right next to each other!

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How cold is it on the moon?

Taking the Moon's Temperature

Daytime temperatures near the lunar equator reach a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit (120° C, 400 K), while nighttime temperatures get to a chilly -208 degrees Fahrenheit (-130° C, 140 K). The Moon's poles are even colder.

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Do compasses work on the moon?

On Earth, a compass needle points to the North Magnetic pole. But on the Moon, Mr. Dietrich said, ''there is no magnetic field that would be detectable by your average Earth compass. ''

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What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning for 42 seconds?

If the planet were to come to an abrupt halt, the angular momentum imparted to the air, water and even rocks along the equator would keep moving at this speed of 1,100 mph. The movement would scour the surface while ripping it apart and sending shards into the upper regions of the atmosphere and outer space.

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What was Earth like before the moon?

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets, including one last giant impact that threw enough rock, gas, and dust into space to form the moon.

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