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Toyota heading to moon with cruiser, robotic arms, dreams

Would you want to live on the Moon?

  • Never

    Votes: 4 30.8%
  • Yes, perhaps a few months

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Yes, and I'd never come back to Earth

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Forget the Moon. I'd rather live on Mars

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Open the pod bay doors, Hal

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • What are you doing, Dave?

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • Other

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • The Moon would be a nice place to visit, but wouldn't want to live there

    Votes: 4 30.8%

  • Total voters
    13

Stevicus

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Toyota heading to moon with cruiser, robotic arms, dreams | AP News

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TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is working with Japan’s space agency on a vehicle to explore the lunar surface, with ambitions to help people live on the moon by 2040 and then go live on Mars, company officials said Friday.

The vehicle being developed with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is called Lunar Cruiser, whose name pays homage to the Toyota Land Cruiser sport utility vehicle. Its launch is set for the late 2020’s.

The vehicle is based on the idea that people eat, work, sleep and communicate with others safely in cars, and the same can be done in outer space, said Takao Sato, who heads the Lunar Cruiser project at Toyota Motor Corp.

“We see space as an area for our once-in-a-century transformation. By going to space, we may be able to develop telecommunications and other technology that will prove valuable to human life,” Sato told The Associated Press.

Gitai Japan Inc., a venture contracted with Toyota, has developed a robotic arm for the Lunar Cruiser, designed to perform tasks such as inspection and maintenance. Its “grapple fixture” allows the arm’s end to be changed so it can work like different tools, scooping, lifting and sweeping.

Gitai Chief Executive Sho Nakanose said he felt the challenge of blasting off into space has basically been met but working in space entails big costs and hazards for astronauts. That’s where robots would come in handy, he said.

Since its founding in the 1930s, Toyota has fretted about losing a core business because of changing times. It has ventured into housing, boats, jets and robots. Its net-connected sustainable living quarters near Mount Fuji, called Woven City, where construction is starting this year.

Japanese fascination with the moon has been growing.

A private Japanese venture called ispace Inc. is working on lunar rovers, landing and orbiting, and is scheduled for a moon landing later this year. Businessman Yusaku Maezawa, who recently took videos of himself floating around in the International Space Station, has booked an orbit around the moon aboard Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Starship.

Toyota engineer Shinichiro Noda said he is excited about the lunar project, an extension of the automaker’s longtime mission to serve customers and the moon may provide valuable resources for life on Earth.

“Sending our cars to the moon is our mission,” he said. Toyota has vehicles almost everywhere. “But this is about taking our cars to somewhere we have never been.”

They hope to have people living on the Moon by 2040, then possibly Mars.

Sounds like it might be interesting to live on the Moon.

Would you want to live on the Moon?
 

The Hammer

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Stevicus

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Absolutely not.

Space is not for us stupid apes, until we learn to manipulate gravity.

Low and Zero-G for extended periods of time causes all sorts of issues with our biological systems.

I can see that. I remember in 2001: A Space Odyssey, they had those instructions for Zero Gravity Toilet. Even something as simple as going to the bathroom can seem like a nightmare.

Someone will have to invent artificial gravity.
 

beenherebeforeagain

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Once several thousand people have been living comfortably there for several generations, and all the technical and medical problems have been worked out, then I might consider it...

In other words, not until I come back in another lifetime...
 

beenherebeforeagain

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Premium Member
Absolutely not.

Space is not for us stupid apes, until we learn to manipulate gravity.

Low and Zero-G for extended periods of time causes all sorts of issues with our biological systems.
We don't yet have any experience of low-G living, so there's really no idea whether or not...or how...the moon's gravity would affect us...
 

The Hammer

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I can see that. I remember in 2001: A Space Odyssey, they had those instructions for Zero Gravity Toilet. Even something as simple as going to the bathroom can seem like a nightmare.

Someone will have to invent artificial gravity.

Yeah, artificial gravity, centripetal motion, something has to be done to create the force of Earth.

Added a link to my last post fyi.
 

beenherebeforeagain

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Premium Member
Yeah we do, we have tons of data from those living in 1 and 2 year stints on the international space station.

Edit: The Dangers of Zero Gravity | Davidson Institute of Science Education
the space station and other space flights are zero-g. The moon has a gravity field at the surface that is about, to quote wikipedia, The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the Moon is approximately 1.625 m/s2, about 16.6% that on Earth's surface or 0.166 ɡ. The effects of such a continuous but lower pull will affect us may be much different than what's seen orbiting the earth.
 

The Hammer

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the space station and other space flights are zero-g. The moon has a gravity field at the surface that is about, to quote wikipedia, The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the Moon is approximately 1.625 m/s2, about 16.6% that on Earth's surface or 0.166 ɡ. The effects of such a continuous but lower pull will affect us may be much different than what's seen orbiting the earth.

Maybe, I don't trust it.
 

We Never Know

No Slack

Heyo

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Toyota heading to moon with cruiser, robotic arms, dreams | AP News

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They hope to have people living on the Moon by 2040, then possibly Mars.

Sounds like it might be interesting to live on the Moon.

Would you want to live on the Moon?
Someone will have to invent artificial gravity.

Someone did. Stanford Torus
That is the place to live in the future. Once you escaped earths gravity well, why would you ever go down another? The moon, some near earth asteroids and some of the gas giants' moons are good for resource mining but living is best done in space.
 

Mock Turtle

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Premium Member
I went for other, given that a variety of similar barren landscapes can be found on Earth, and a Moon experience could probably be done virtually and perhaps in addition from being on some larger space station when these eventually arrive - as to variable gravity. The Moon doesn't seem to offer much, apart from a nice view of Earth. :oops:
 
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