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Manifesto Moonmlncrsmanlfcsto.Com MMM Classic Themes Lunar Archlteelure & Construct.Ion Manifesto www.MMM- MoonMlncrsManlfcsto.com MMM Classic Themes Lunar Archlteelure & Construct.ion ·······400 ft Safety t----1 Exit Craft, Parlor Main & EVA Hobby Entry Garden-Solariufl"I Unit ~ & 0 0 Family Ruu111 4,200 Sq. ft. Home Street Line-+ Kitch. :;; co.< .•:·· 0 0 0 .......c:>...... ·:: .. o .... Duplex Module ..........e>.... & Bath Utility Libr. Master Bedroofl"I Upper Entry Other Bedrooms Lower CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX MMM THEMES: Lunar Architecture & Construction MMM # 1 M is for Mole MMM # 2 M is for Metropolis MMM # 3 M is for Mare/Maria, Multiple Sites, Mounds; Building a Concrete Outpost MMM # 5 Lunar Architecture; M is for Middoors, Matchport MMM # 8 Parkway MMM # 16 Glass-Glass Composites MMM # 17 Liquid Airlocks MMM # 18 Strategy For Following Up Lunar Soil-Processing With Industrial M.U.S.-c.l.e. MMM # 20 An Amateur Lunar Telescope Design; Ceramic City; Pioneer Quiz: Moon’s surface; Tailings from Mining Operations MMM # 26 Prinzton Settlement Design Entry: i. The Rille as a Settlement Site MMM # 27 Prinzton cont.: 2. Rille Architecture - General Concepts; Sardine Can Fatalism MMM # 28 Prinzton cont.: 3: Three Village Residential Areas MMM # 33 Glass-Glass Composites update MMM # 37 Ramadas: Yard and Worksite Canopies for Lunar Outposts; Flare Sheds MMM # 38 Polders: A Space Colony Model MMM # 40 Cloacal vs. Tritreme Plumbing MMM # 48 Hostels: Alternate Concept for both First Beachheads and Secondary Outposts, 1. The Visiting “Amphibious” Vehicle MMM # 49 Hostels: 2. The Hostel’s Share of the Workload; 3. Evolution of Hostel with Use MMM # 50 Hostels: 4. Hostel-appropriate Architectures MMM # 51 Fire Department MMM # 52 “Xities” - Settlements Beyond Earth’s Biosphere; 1 Xitytech(nology); Fireside MMM # 53 Xity Plans MMM # 54 Xity Plans, II MMM # 55 Beyond Mole Hill City: Skyscrapers on the Moon; Moon Roofs; Shantytown67 MMM # 66 Lunar Utilities Infrastructure: Wiring the Moon; Light Delivery Systems MMM # 67 Water Reservoirs; Settlement Water Company MMM # 74 Housing on the Moon; Shielding & Shelter; Visual Access; Letting in the Sun; Drop-in Utility Cores; Modular Element Testbed Ensembles MMM # 75 A Successful Lunar Appropriate Modular Architecture MMM # 76 Inside Mare Manor; Interior Walls; Wall Surfaces & Trimwork; Wall Hangings; Ceilings; Flooring MMM # 77 Inside Mare Manor 2. Furniture & Furnishings MMM # 80 Avoiding the “Sardine Can Syndrome” MMM # 84 Rural Luna: “Tarns” and “Tarntecture” MMM # 88 Shelter on the Moon; Dust Control MMM # 90 Site Management; Warehousing MMM # 91 Expanding the Outpost MMM # 92 Permanent Outposts? MMM # 94 The “Middoors” - Making do without the “Outdoors” MMM # 95 Mother Earth and Mother Moon: 2 Distinct analogous forms of “Cradle Blanket” MMM # 96 Fresh Air; The Quest for Elbow Room; A Green Security Blanket MMM # 100 An Early Lavatube Town; Challenges of Sealing & Pressurizing Lavatubes MMM # 107 Clear Span Lunar Base Structures MMM # 110 “Reclamation” is a Xity’s Charter Function MMM # 111 Lunar Skyscrapers Revisited MMM # 116 A Modular Approach to Biospherics MMM # 120 Essence of the Frontier: Readiness to Reinvent Everything MMM # 122 Shielding Accessories: the “B” Options MMM # 125 A Levittown on the Moon? MMM # 127 TransHab and The Architecture & Promise of Hybrid Rigid-Inflatables MMM # 131 Improving the Moon: The Developer’s Role MMM # 132 Collapsed Lavatube (Rilles) Makeovers; Liquid Airlocks revisited; “Skylight Domes” for Lavatube Towns & Vaulted Rilleplexes MMM # 134 Lavatubes: The Developer’s Role MMM # 135 Cast Basalt: Startup Industry With Two Great Tricks MMM # 136 Nightspan Lighting: Sulfur Lamps and Light Pipes MMM # 137 Taking Back the Surface: Above Surface Architectures for Moon Habitats MMM # 138 The “Black Sky Blues” - Coping with Black Sky Country MMM # 145 Murphy Beds and Multi-Function Living Spaces in Frontier Private Quarters MMM # 146 Urban Lofts & Settlement Style: 1. A Preview of Lunar Interior Styles MMM # 147 More Clues from Loft-living Styles MMM # 148 Distributing Risk: Lessons from 911 MMM # 152 Thermally Self-Regulating Lunar Habitats; The Middoors: Being “at Home” is Completed by Being able to go “Outside” MMM # 157 “Porches” on the Moon MMM # 160 Will Settlement Change the Moon’s Appearance? MMM # 166 Designing Surface Structures for Moonscapes MMM # 178 Storage on the Moon MMM # 179 “Black Sky Blues” and Faux Skylights & Clerestories MMM # 187 Cities “Out There” (Xities) - Bringing Home the Diference; From Outpost to Settlement: Tell-tale Signals of Passage “Bridging” Rille Valley Chasms Before Trafc Warrants Building a Bridge MMM # 190 Aluminum (ALONtm) Windows MMM # 194 Microwave Oven Technology for Road Building MMM # 198 The Outpost Trap: Technologies Needed to Break Free; I. Transportation Systems; II. Expansion-friendly Modular Outpost Architectural Language; !!!. Locating for Local, Regional, Global Expansion Options MMM # 199 The Outpost Trap: IV. In Situ (local) Resource Utilization; V. Industrial Diversification Enablers; VI. The Entrepreneurs; VII. Moonbase Personnel MMM # 200 The Outpost Trap: VIII. Strategies for Organizations helping make it happen; IX. A Lunar Analog Program can Make it Happen MMM # 201 “Beyond Our First Moonbase;” Modular Biospherics Living Wall Systems MMM # 202 Modular Biospherics: Middoor Green Spaces MMM # 204 Modular Biospherics: Toilet-equipped Habitat & Activity Modules MMM # 205 Modular Biospherics: Tritreme Plumbing; An Unpressurized Lee-Vac Arena MMM # 208 Lunar Settlement has already begun (Apollo’s “Leavings”) MMM # 224 An International Lunar Research Park MMM # 232 Lunar Base “Preconstruction;” Pete’s Shielding Blog MMM # 234 Cast Basalt: Critical Role for Lunar Industrialization, Settlement Construction; Basalt: What its availability means MMM # 239 An Avatar Moonbase? MMM # 242 Telepresence-operated “Robonauts” will revise all “Scenarios;” Role of Robonauts & Robots on the Moon Once Humans have settled in to stay MMM # 258 Moon and Mars Outposts: Building Sheltering Structures First SUB-THEME INDEX: MMM THEMES: Lunar Architecture & Construction NOTE: There must be many ways to group the many articles listed above. We make no claims that this one is the best, but it may help. Beginnings: “Outposts” MMM # 48 Hostels: Alternate Concept for both First Beachheads and Secondary Outposts, 1. The Visiting “Amphibious” Vehicle MMM # 49 Hostels: 2. The Hostel’s Share of the Workload; 3. Evolution of Hostel with Use MMM # 50 Hostels: 4. Hostel-appropriate Architectures MMM # 84 Rural Luna: “Tarns” and “Tarntecture” MMM # 198 The Outpost Trap: Technologies Needed to Break Free; I. Transportation Systems; II. Expansion-friendly Modular Outpost Architectural Language; !!!. Locating for Local, Regional, Global Expansion Options MMM # 199 The Outpost Trap: IV. In Situ (local) Resource Utilization; V. Industrial Diversification Enablers; VI. The Entrepreneurs; VII. Moonbase Personnel MMM # 200 The Outpost Trap: VIII. Strategies for Organizations helping make it happen; IX. A Lunar Analog Program can Make it Happen MMM # 208 Lunar Settlement has already begun (Apollo’s “Leavings”) MMM # 224 An International Lunar Research Park MMM # 232 Lunar Base “Preconstruction” MMM # 239 An Avatar Moonbase? MMM # 242 Telepresence-operated “Robonauts” will revise all “Scenarios;” Role of Robonauts & Robots on the Moon Once Humans have settled in to stay Shielding Against Radiation and Thermal Extremes MMM # 1 M is for Mole MMM # 3 M is for Mounds MMM # 17 Liquid Airlocks MMM # 37 Ramadas: Yard and Worksite Canopies for Lunar Outposts; Flare Sheds MMM # 38 Polders: A Space Colony Model MMM # 55 Beyond Mole Hill City: Skyscrapers on the Moon; Moon Roofs; Shantytown MMM # 74 Housing on the Moon; Shielding & Shelter MMM # 88 Shelter on the Moon; Dust Control MMM # 107 Clear Span Lunar Base Structures MMM # 110 “Reclamation” is a Xity’s Charter Function MMM # 111 Lunar Skyscrapers Revisited MMM # 122 Shielding Accessories: the “B” Options MMM # 132 Collapsed Lavatube (Rilles) Makeovers; “Skylight Domes” for Lavatube Towns & Vaulted Rilleplexes MMM # 137 Taking Back the Surface: Above Surface Architectures for Moon Habitats MMM # 152 Thermally Self-Regulating Lunar Habitats; MMM # 166 Designing Surface Structures for Moonscapes MMM # 232 Lunar Base “Preconstruction;” Pete’s Shielding Blog MMM # 258 Moon and Mars Outposts: Building Sheltering Structures First MMM # 26 Prinzton Settlement Design Entry: i. The Rille as a Settlement Site MMM # 27 Prinzton cont.: 2. Rille Architecture - General Concepts MMM # 52 “Xities” - Settlements Beyond Earth’s Biosphere; 1 Xitytech(nology) MMM # 74 Housing on the Moon; Visual Access; Letting in the Sun MMM # 95 Mother Earth and Mother Moon: 2 Distinct analogous forms of “Cradle Blanket” The Concept of the Middoors MMM # 5 Lunar Architecture; M is for Middoors MMM # 8 Animal Life; Parkway MMM # 94 The “Middoors” - Making do without the “Outdoors” MMM # 96 Fresh Air; A Green Security Blanket MMM # 152 The Middoors: Being “at Home” is Completed by Being able to go “Outside” Modular Biospherics MMM # 40 Cloacal vs. Tritreme Plumbing MMM # 75 A Successful Lunar Appropriate Modular Architecture MMM # 96 Fresh Air; The Quest for Elbow Room; A Green Security Blanket MMM # 116 A Modular Approach to Biospherics MMM # 148 Distributing Risk: Lessons from 911 MMM # 201 “Beyond Our First Moonbase;” Modular Biospherics Living Wall Systems MMM # 202 Modular Biospherics: Middoor Green Spaces MMM # 204 Modular Biospherics: Toilet-equipped Habitat & Activity Modules MMM # 205 Modular Biospherics: Tritreme
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