"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
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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.

I saw that episode of "Space: 1999"! It came and went in a day- complete
with rain!

I'll bet *that* played havoc with the corrosion inhibitors on Moonbase
Alpha's skin!