It seems like an atypical DARPA project. The ones I’ve seen were more practical and down-to-Earth, pun not intended.
It should have been done 40-50 years ago, if we were a forward looking civilization.
Instead we wasted ten’s of trillions of dollars on stupid wars and ineffective welfare systems.
We also wrecked our middle class via stupid economic policies.
Someday people will look back on this time and just shake their heads and wonder how could people be so stupid?
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/growing-the-lunar-economy/
the future at the Moon holds promise for a robust lunar marketplace.
Hire Elon Musk and the Boring Company to plan and build tunnels on the Moon. They’ll get it done for one-hundredth the cost. Heck, Musk probably already finished the plans and can provide it to DARPA for free.
“a human colony on the Moon”
A prototype 15 minute village?
Light rail to connect all the high density housing with major lunar employment centers..
This must be tied to the presence of H3 (the perfect fusion reactor fuel) being found in large quantities, concentrated in the regolith on the surface of the moon
Wonder where they are going to cut the cross ties?
Why not a bullet-train?
Let’s put that thing in orbit.
Too bad Evel Knievel isn’t around to see it.