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message: The article states: "The lack of a substantial atmosphere for insulation results in temperature extremes and makes the Moon's surface conditions somewhat like a deep space vacuum."  This is obviously wrong in attributing the function of insulation to atmosphere in this respect.  What the moon lacks is a source of atmosphere for convective heat transfer, which in turn results in extreme temperature differences between light and shadow.  While this is obvious to anyone with a little engineering education, obvious facts are not always admissible in an article based on common knowledge of the contributors familiar with the topic.  Having a reference for a particular statement is best.  I will tag the false statement as citation needed, and remove it by and by.  - Fartherred (talk) 01:59, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
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message: "Even small pebbles and dust (micrometeoroids) have the potential to damage or destroy insufficiently protected structures."  This seems to me to be a tautology.  This would be relevant if it read something like "even small pebbles and dust have the potential to damage structures without massive protection" or whatever the facts are.--2607:FEA8:D5E0:A24:711F:924:B15F:7115 (talk) 01:08, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
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message: Dear fellow Wikipedians
Would it be possible to include this brief article in this topic?
Colonization of the moon
SSERVI
Professor Darby Dyar (Astronomy and Geology) from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts (USA) and chair of Astronomy is part of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) which used to be the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lunar Science Institute.
https://sservi.nasa.gov/ 
SSERVI stands for a partnership between science, technology and space exploration which was formed to facilitate a greater understanding about the Moon and airless bodies.
https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/tag/airless-bodies/ 
The NASA Science Mission Directorate and Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate support SSERVI. The institute presently concentrates on scientific aspects of exploration relevant to the Moon, Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and the moons of Mars. However, SSERVI’s objectives can multiply depending on requirements of NASA. The institute’s research consists of multiple properties of the surface, interior, outermost region, near-space environments, and dynamics of said bodies.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015DPS....4721601P 
https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/colonizing-the-moon/ 
Dyar has written over 200 papers published in scientific journals. The NASA and NSF International, a product testing, inspection, and certification entity in Ann Arbor (Michigan State) have awarded Dyar around $4.1 million in different grants. 
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/m-darby-dyar
Thank you!
LOBOSKYJOJO (talk) 03:48, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I don't think so? JustinTime55 (talk) 21:14, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not, but would that not fit better in Lunar outpost (NASA) --Kharon (talk) 03:36, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Strange request

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message: Hi there the article deals with human settlement as well as simple human missions to the Moon.
I though would argue that "colonization" is a very particular type of human presence, with a lot of historic baggage.
Since Mars for example has an own article about human mission to Mars, I would argue that the issue needs differentiation in a similar kind with different articles for different issues like "Moon based activity", "Lunar settling" and "Lunar mining". Or the article should be called something more general, like "human presence on the Moon" or/and "Moon based activity" (the former including remains from missions, and the latter handling the activity of human installations like e.g. possible observatories or refueling stations.
What do you think? Nsae Comp (talk) 13:30, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Right title for all forms of permanent human activity? 

message: The intro section includes this bit: 
:  Beside its technological and financial challenges, colonization and particularly exploitation, like its realizations on Earth, has contemporarily been reflected on and criticized as inherently problematic colonialism
I marked this as dubious. Even if I'm charitable to the cited source and its relevance to the article, the source doesn't really say that moon settlement is problematic, but rather, the language of discussions of moon settlement (specifically the use of the term "colonize"). (The title of the article even explicitly says "the language of space exploration." It also later talks about how this language may impact power and superiority relationships between colonists and their mother countries or even Earth dwellers as a whole.) That opinion about the terminology of the topic may be valid and maybe even encyclopedic, but it's not a reflection of the topic itself, just the terms used regarding it. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 18:04, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The term colonialism is associated with the forcible exploitation of native peoples by external nations wherein the external party institutes a social and economic hegemony over the native residents of the area in question. The moon, having no native people, cannot be said to be a subject of colonialism, even if colonies are developed on it. 73.222.226.146 (talk) 18:26, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moon settlement as problematic 

message: The criticism section never actually addresses lunar colonization. 2600:8801:710E:7E00:F99A:7C45:C42E:10E8 (talk) 07:05, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Everything but the moon