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The Importance for Lunar Pioneer Mental Health
Of being “at ease” with the barren, seemingly life-squelching radiation-washed lunar surface, the “Out-Vac” -
Peter Kokh
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The lunar surface can be intimidating!
• In addition to the risks of prolonged exposure to the cosmic elements, “moon dust” has been getting a bad name as insidious, mischievous, gear-fouling, able to induce silicosis, etc.
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Plenty of ways to make pioneers feel “at home” inside
• Modular Construction of rather spacious homesteads will be possible once lunar building materials come online: concrete, metal alloys, glass-glass composites etc.
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Plenty of ways to make pioneers feel “at home” inside
• Periscopic picture windows open up onto the surrounding moonscapes
• As heliostats funnel sunshine inside
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Plenty of ways to make pioneers feel “at home” inside
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Plenty of ways to make pioneers feel “at home” inside
Early use of lunar materials, such as
• cast basalt tiles • carved basalt • raw glass
• steamed sintered regolith, etc.
will say “This is a Lunar homestead!”
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Plenty of ways to make pioneers feel “at home” inside
• Living Walls, garden spaces, and ample planters will fill the interior with sweet fresh air, luxuriant greenery, colorful flowers - a reassuring, codling, sample of “Earth-life!”
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Plenty of ways to make pioneers feel “at home” inside
• Water features can add their reassuring sounds and repetitive motion • We can even bring the green forests of Old Earth inside, bonsai style
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Plenty of ways to make pioneers feel “at home” inside
• We’ll even replace an Old Earth cliché with a one just right for the Moon, to “filter” and “green” the barren moonscapes outside
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As for travel “in town” …
• Homesteads will open onto pressurized “middoor” “streets,” also sunlit and full of greenery.
• Settlement streets will hold the bulk of the mini-biosphere
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And for travel between towns ..
• Your coach will dock using androgynous locks at both ends of your trip, allowing you to travel in street clothes anywhere on the Moon.
• “Look, ma, no spacesuit!”
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Perhaps many pioneers would put on a spacesuit only in a “decompression drill”• Yet prospectors, geologists, and
some construction workers will work on the surface regularly, limiting their “rad” exposure
• There will be hobby “rock hounds,” nature hikers, and amateur astronomers
• And there will be the “outdoor” adventurer sportsman types like road rally fans, even lava tube “spelunkers”
• But others “need not” ever go “outside”
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And if you never “have to” go “really” outside, then ….
• There is the danger that a subset of the pioneer population will develop a phobia or neurosis about the lunar surface. As a result, they may never accept the setting in which they live as “home.”
• And that kind of situation could lead to widespread mental health issues
• The Challenge is to develop “out-vac” attractions & events that encourage more and more pioneers to “get their feet dusty” so that they can truly feel “at home” on the Moon, not just inside!
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There are some times when being out on the surface will not be so intimidating
• Early “morn dates” - the period when all the Apollo missions were “on the ground”
• Late “afternoon dates” when the sun is also low• During eclipses when the Sun is hidden and the moonscapes take
on a “Mars at twilight” look• Night excursions to look at the stars without sun-glare
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Guided Nature Walk Excursions
• Both for adults, and especially for school field trips
• Participants would learn about Moon rocks and geological features
• And most of all, get “out-vac”
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As the settlement grows, why not an “out-vac” amusement park?
• A Roller Coaster that plummets at high speed toward an apparent crash, a surface trap door opening just in time!
• Leisurely cableway rides, much more!
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Other “out-vav” activities
Some old favorite outdoor activities will survive indoors
• People can go boating in trout streams and lagoons within the settlement
• Human-powered flight only will be possible in high ceiling indoor arenas
• Skiing might be enjoyed in pressurized sloping cylinders set on crater inner walls
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There is an easier way: “Lee-Vac” Vacuum protected from the Cosmic
Elements
Inside this kind of environment, protected from the cosmic elements, lighter-weight “counter-pressure” “skinsuits” can be worn with far less fatigue, as well as allowing greater freedom of movement
This will allow warehouse workers, for example, to work longer periods in greater comfort
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The “counter-pressure” “skinsuit”
Due to increasing budget constraints, NASA has stopped any further research on these kind of spacesuits.
Others, such as Mars Society Australia, are continuing to develop the idea
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How counter-pressure skinsuits work
• An MCP suit differs from a gas-pressurized suit by exerting pressure on the body using form-fitting elastic garments.
• It also does away with stiff mechanical shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle joints.
• Webb and Annis published the concept and early experiments of a MCP suit in 1967
• MCP garments offer dramatic improvements to gas pressurized suits in reach, dexterity and tactility due to replace-ment of stiff joints and bearings with light, flexible elastics.
• Further advantages: safety (because a tear or hole would remain a local defect rather than cause a catastrophic puncture), lower suit costs and vastly reduced weight and volume.
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“Paris, there is a problem …”
• Skinsuits conform to one’s body shape, thus revealing any of those imperfections, you would rather not display in public.
• Not everyone, of course, would be bothered by that
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Skinsuit “outerwear” Fashion Shows to the rescue!
Fabric materials you wouldn’t want next to your skin will work fine.
A robe, a cape, medieval chain mail, fantasy designs: whatever works to get more pioneers to venture out from their cozy indoor and middoor pressurized spaces!
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Introducing the lee-van Arena
Inside this environment, attached to the main settlement complex, people in skinsuits could exercise or experiment with sports playing to low-gravity with zero-air resistance.
The first such protected but unpressurized arena will surely give birth to all new sports, even no lunar dance ballet!
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Skinsuits, with or without outerwear, would be fine for short periods out on the surface
Especially under low-sun or no-sun conditions, skinsuit wearers could go “out-vac” for nature walks, or visit sculpture gardens, or other surface attractions.
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The idea is to improve overall settler mental health and sense of being truly “at home” on the Moon
Peter Kokh - [email protected]
1630 N 32nd Street, Milwaukee, WI 53208
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