"Alfred Montestruc" wrote in
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Brad Guth wrote:
Roger Bagula,
Can I add a little something extra as to terraforming our moon?

The moon will lose an earthlike atmospheare if it is given one. At the
heat flux rate from the sun it sees the gas will leak off in a
relitivly short amount of time.

"Relatively short" only in a geological sense. The "half-life" of a lunar
atmosphere is measured in the thousands of years.

Once that air is gone, it is gone, and
cannot be recovered.

For any civilization advanced enough to give the moon an atmosphere in the
first place, it would be child's play to replenish the atmosphere by the
fraction of a percent per year necessary to keep it there.


--
JRF

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