How big an area can we possibly make habitable on the moon?

This question focuses on an artificial atmosphere on the moon and the achieved amount being the limiting factor for the size of habitats.

I got a lot of beef for the suggestion to terraform the whole moon in the style of omg-the-amount-of-energy-needed-for-that, and apparently no ones believes we can do magic in the future except me, so lets turn the question around and ask, how much terrain can we populate within the realm of believable possibilities.

We are in the future and have created technology that allows us to move masses around in our solar system. Assume our technology literally skyrockets in the next 1000 years (including the connection of our knowledge beyond internet-capabilities). We can bring a lot of resources from the Kuiper belt and other "convenient" places relatively easy to the moon (sure it takes time, but we have really many and big transportations). Added as guideline: let's say we 100.000 times better at transporting things in space than we are now.

We have the knowledge to maintain an earth-like atmosphere on the moon; there is a dome of some kind.

How big an area can we possibly make habitable on the moon? Since this is of course a very complex question with a lot of variables, let's focus only on the creation of atmosphere and leave out that humans need more than air.

If you can express an answer in area, please convert your answer into km². Alternativly an estimate in percent would be appreciated.

posted about 5 years ago

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