The One-Way Door: When humans stop visiting the Moon and start being from it

The One-Way Door: When humans stop visiting the Moon and start being from it

What happens when humans stop visiting the Moon—and start being from it? As lunar colonies grow, children will eventually be born there whose bodies can’t survive Earth’s gravity. The Moon stops being a destination and becomes a one-way door, reshaping biology, politics, and even religion. This essay imagines those future Lunari and how they might see Earth as a distant, half-remembered origin rather than home.