If Elon Musk succeeds at building the BFR as he plans we will have in a decade the possibility to bring stuff for $10/kg to low earth orbit and maybe $50/kg to the moon.
That means a vacation on a space station might be priced for <$10,000.
Through changing the rotational speed of a space station it’s possible to set the g force where you need it for chemical reactions. This means that there’s a lot of science to be done to understand how changing g forces affect reaction. It also provides the potential that there are commercially viable reactions that we want to do up there in space stations.
This raises the question about what advantages the moon provides to us. Recent news suggests that our moon has places that are really cold: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32902658/ns/technologyand science-space/t/coldest-place-solar-system-moon/
Cooling things down on earth is expensive. Most of the cost of cryonics is about cooling down the frozen bodies. It might be cost effective to transport anything we want to freeze for cryonics to the moon where there’s no upkeep needed.
A huge part of the cost of MRI scanners lies in cooling them down. As a result there might be some experiments that can be done more cheaply on the moon given the much lower temperatures.
Moon/Asteroid mining might also be possible with the economics of the BFR.
If Elon Musk succeeds at building the BFR as he plans we will have in a decade the possibility to bring stuff for $10/kg to low earth orbit and maybe $50/kg to the moon.
That means a vacation on a space station might be priced for <$10,000.
Through changing the rotational speed of a space station it’s possible to set the g force where you need it for chemical reactions. This means that there’s a lot of science to be done to understand how changing g forces affect reaction. It also provides the potential that there are commercially viable reactions that we want to do up there in space stations.
This raises the question about what advantages the moon provides to us. Recent news suggests that our moon has places that are really cold: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32902658/ns/technologyand science-space/t/coldest-place-solar-system-moon/
Cooling things down on earth is expensive. Most of the cost of cryonics is about cooling down the frozen bodies. It might be cost effective to transport anything we want to freeze for cryonics to the moon where there’s no upkeep needed.
A huge part of the cost of MRI scanners lies in cooling them down. As a result there might be some experiments that can be done more cheaply on the moon given the much lower temperatures.
Moon/Asteroid mining might also be possible with the economics of the BFR.