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Lunar Hotel

Living on the moon may be tough, but it's not impossible. Credit: NASA

1. Will People Ever Live on the Moon?

If this list has painted a picture of the moon as an uninviting place to shack up, then you've been paying attention. The ashen rock offers us only infernal days and frozen nights, as well as unchecked cosmic radiation and weak gravity.

In spite of the risks, NASA hasn't wasted any time in making plans to set up camp on the moon. The space agency is eyeing a parcel of land near the lunar south pole (where there's constant daylight) for a moon base.

In addition to a possible wealth of helium-3 or hydrogen fuel, the moon would be an ideal place to build a telescope or a launch pad to explore the solar system (with less gravity to overcome, the escape velocity for spaceships is significantly lower).

Until the age of moon colonies finally arrives, however, you'll just have to make do with a nightly view of Earth's small, constant companion.

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