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COLLEGE OF
SCIENCE
Selenology Department (Lunar
geology)
- Robotic
exploration homework: We need to
fly lunar orbiter missions with the
instruments capable of filling in
the many blank spots in our map of
lunar resource and other features of
economic significance - the
"Economic Geography of the
Moon"
- Data Mining
Projects:
Some of this
knowledge might be mined from data of
missions already flown, using special
software.
- Transportation
Corridors:
Such a map
would also identify logical regional
and interregional transportation
corridors, as well as areas where most
of the needed resources are
concentrated, thus telling us where a
first resource-using industrial
settlement should be located
- Ground Truth
lander and rover
missions
are
indicated to quantify and qualify
teasing indications from orbital
probes, for example, of suspected lunar
polar ice deposits and of suspected
lavatubes
- Feature and
Place
Name
Registry
- Identification and
prioritization of
areas
for
Geological, Scenic, Historical
Preservation Reserve
status
Astronomy Department
- Farside radio
astronomy installations
- Optical astronomy
installations
- Designing
telescopes for Lunar amateur
use
COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING & APPLIED
SCIENCE
Energy Department
- He3 extraction,
handling, shipping
- Lunar Solar Power
Systems
- Power Storage
Options ongoing research
- Dayspan/Nightspan
Operations management
- Recycling as a way
to reuse embodied energy already
produced
- Energy efficiency
research
- Structured
industrial parks in which waste heat
from one operation feeds the next down
a line of decreasing thermal
needs
- Developing lunar
sourceable liquid and gaseous fuels for
generators and mobile
applications
- Mass driver systems
for export bulk commodities
- Mass catcher
systems for import bulk
commodities
Civil Engineering
- Road
construction
- bridge, tunnels,
shafts
Computer Engineering
Transportation
- Design of vehicles
for inside pressurized
trafficways
- Design of surface
highways and vehicles for personal, and
group transit, and freight
use
- Design of self-help
roadway service stations, flare sheds,
hostels
- Design of lunar
railway systems
- Design of lunar
cableway systems
- Design of
human-powered cycles for 1/6 th
gravity
- Design of
suborbital transports and runways
Lunar-appropriate Technology
Department
- Mining &
Processing Technologies
research
- Lunar-deficient
element (LDEs) Outsourcing
Studies
- Lunar Satellite
systems research
- Manufacturing
processes that need little or no water
or which recycle them
- Dust control
systems research
- Institute of
Lunar-Appropriate Industrial Design
- MUS/cle Design
Projects
- Assembly methods
that are disassembly-friendly for
proper recycling
Materials Research
Department
- Concrete
- Glass, glass
fibers, glass composites
- Ceramics
- Cast
basalt
- Metal
alloys
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COLLEGE OF SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS
Department of Agriculture
- Development of new
hybrids
- Biological
Diversification project
- Wild Areas
project
- Food
processing
- Biomass waste
recycling
- Fiber
production
- Pharmaceutical
production
- Climate options for
specific flora, fauna, crops
- bioextraction of
elements present in trace
amounts
- student outreach
projects - LUNAX
Environmental Engineering
- Modular
biospherics
- Air refreshing
systems
- Graywater and
blackwater recycling
systems
- Environmental
protection protocols
- Ecosystems: plants,
animals, insects, microbes
- Biodiversity
Department of Lunar
Architecture
- Modular
architecture system
improvements
- Surface structure
architecture
- Shielding
systems
- Warehouse
systems
- Flare
sheds
- Construction
systems
- Development of
stair and ladder systems appropriate
for people fully acclimatized to lunar
gravity levels
COLLEGE OF
LIBERAL ARTS
Department of Human
Resources
- Identification of
production-supporting roles for
seniors, children, adolescents, and the
handicapped
- Identification of
tasks that can be outsourced to
teleoperators on Earth in order to free
a larger percentage of the population
on the Moon for export and domestic
production needs.
- identification of
tasks that can be assigned to those who
must be removed from the general
population, so that they can also
support the economic goals of the
frontier population. Note:
on a frontier there is always
more to be done than people to do it.
We cannot afford to support the
existence of those not contributing
in some way.
Sports & Recreation
Department
- computer simulation
development of sports designed to play
to lunar 1/6 th gravity and traction,
but with standard momentum
- Ditto re dance
forms
- Development of
out-vac (external surface vacuum)
recreation and sporting
activities
Arts Department
- Development of
lunar sourceable art media
(ceramics, alloys, paints,
etc.)
- Development of
lunar-manufacturable music
instruments
- Assistance with
developing lunar performing arts forms
Frontier Political Science
Department
- Determination of
the minimum needs for domestic home
rule
- Developing agreed
upon schedule for increasing levels of
autonomy
- Earth Political,
Economic, Cultural,
Relations
COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION
Department of Curricula
Development
- Developing
open-source research-focused curricula
for use in colleges and universities
around the world, in support of ULP
Research goals
COLLEGE OF
MEDICINE
Department of Frontier Medicine
& Health
- Development of
compact full-function
hospitals
- Development of
Moon-appropriate first aid kits and
systems
- Research in
Earth-orbiting facilities with 1/6th
normal artificial gravity to gain early
indication of physiological and other
health problems that are 1/6th gravity
specific
- Adaptation of
nutritional diets to the demands of
life in 1/6th gravity
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