Humans, and Hyenas, Sheltered in Cave-Like Lava Tubes Millennia Ago

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Lava tubes on the moon are really important— they are plentiful and huge. Human settlements need radiation shielding and why build on the surface when you can just inflate a habitat underground? Cavemen on the moon!

With their huge size, we can inflate big arenas for televised sports (moonball, anyone?) which will play a foundational role in the development of the moon’s economy. After all, nearly everyone on earth would want to watch… & you can’t scale moon tourism like that. Concrete prediction: Moon sports will be a 10 billion dollar industry within a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_lava_tube

about 50% of the population wont believe its on the moon

>about 50% of the population wont believe its on the moon

That's a feature, not a bug.

How else do you think they're going to be convinced to relocate to it?

;)

> we can inflate big arenas

Read that as hyenas. Amusing thought!

Don’t threaten the furry community with a good time ;3

Do you have any idea what lives in those tubes ?

obviously giant space slugs and swarms of mynock (always chewin on the power cables...)

https://www.wsj.com/science/archaeology/lava-tubes-saudi-ara...

There are a number of sites with lava tubes, eg: https://parks.desi.qld.gov.au/parks/undara-volcanic/about/cu... in Qld, Australia.

Where there is thick limestone formations there are often long underground tunnels carved out by rivers, eg: https://exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/park/dimalurru-tunnel-cr...

“…evidence suggests ancient hyenas and other predators also took refuge in these tubes…”

Together?

> “There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of these structures scattered all across the landscape,”

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