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The most popular export from the Moon and Mars will be information. Just basic live streams from daily activities with monthly subscriptions would probably be quite popular.

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No, it won't.

It'll be really popular for maybe 6 months, 1 year maximum. After that, everyone will lose interest.

We've already seen this before with the Moon: when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, everyone in America (and probably all around the world) watched in on TV. With subsequent missions, no one cared, except when there was a big problem with Apollo 13 and the astronauts' lives were at stake.

People watch idiots play the same video games for years, or just dick around in real life. Good personalities hanging out on the moon, doing moon things, would be quite a bit more popular.

Real Housewives of Tycho Base

Big Brother - Moon Edition...

Sure, things would subside after a time, but with a large community there would be a diverse enough range of subjects in content produced to appeal to a broader range of people using media distribution methods on a scale unimaginable to most people in the beginning of the space age.

...and every day parents around the world are making more new fans than ever.

"Hey whattup peeps it's ya boy MoonBoi420 coming at you with another update from The Dark Side. Don't forget to smash that like and subscribe button! On today's episode we're going on a trip to The Sea of Tranquility. This will be an exciting vlog! Stick around after this quick word from our sponsor...NordVPN.. Don't let aliens steal your passwords..."

“I THREW MOON ROCKS AT THEIR BASE (PRANK) (FREAKOUT)!!!”

Throwing moon rocks is a funny-once.

GONE WRONG

We found a MOON BUGGY abandoned for 50 Years! WILL IT START?

Perhaps medical treatment would be a great motivator for moon settlement as well. Like, do you suffer from chronic back pain? What about moving to a place where your spine has to support only 1/6 of your Earth weight? I think lots of conditions can become more bearable under reduced g, given the deleterious effects of partial g are not nearly as strong as those under microgravity.

OTOH, you're screwed if you get bored up there after a few years and wanna come back home...

What if I had only a few years left anyway. I think many mobility problems of elderly people boil down to not being strong enough to properly lift and carry around your own weight anymore. Perhaps the moon could be the ultimate retirement home, where people choose to spend their final years enjoying more mobility with reduced risk from falls in lower g.

Will only work if the space elevator happens. The g's from a traditional launch would be a major issue for the elderly.

Luna retirement home!

Would the G force required to get there be tolerable?

For a few minutes on takeoff and landing probably yes.

Another god darn streaming service. Out of this world.

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