Scientists pour cold water on moon cities: even best case lasts 100 years
New feasibility math says a million-person lunar settlement exhausts even the most generous water supply within a century, and realistic estimates are 30 times worse.

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New feasibility math says a million-person lunar settlement exhausts even the most generous water supply within a century, and realistic estimates are 30 times worse.
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