Moonbase when?
aeiou
John Madden
Vast new stores of water reported on the moon
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#12Moonbase when?
For what exactly?
prison mining colony.
but seriously, it could be used as a manufacturing and industrial hub for deep space operations like asteroid mining.
think about it like this. if we can manufacture things on the moon we can launch things for almost nothing into both earth orbit and the outer solar system due to how the orbital mechanics work.
this means we can build a million probes and send them all over the solar system, manufacture generation ships, permanent self sustaining space based habitats.
a new era of expansion, exploration, and discovery.
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#13So “infinity pools” up there would be in a completely different league?
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#14Moonbase when?
aeiou
just in case people don't get the joke
https://youtu.be/Hv6RbEOlqRo
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worried about disturbing the ecosystem?
It will become so ugly once exploitation starts. You know the pristine look of a field with new snow? To compare with once there are footsteps and tire tracks everywhere? The moon's beautiful undisturbed dust will become an ugly mess and look like garbage.
It's not like pristine snow at all, but like dusty asphalt(it really does have such color) constantly churned by meteoric impacts. It's possible however, that we avoid using such a hostile environment to a bare minimum and stay and mine underground instead.
I can see Mars landscape as beautiful and worth preserving, but drawing the line there.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It will become so ugly once exploitation starts. You know the pristine look of a field with new snow? To compare with once there are footsteps and tire tracks everywhere? The moon's beautiful undisturbed dust will become an ugly mess and look like garbage.
It's not like pristine snow at all, but like dusty asphalt(it really does have such color) constantly churned by meteoric impacts. It's possible however, that we avoid using such a hostile environment to a bare minimum and stay and mine underground instead. I can see Mars landscape as beautiful and worth preserving, but drawing the line there.
It is like pristine snow in that it does not have traces of human activity all over it. But in contrast to snow, it changes very slowly, and no weather to smoothen out traces either.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
aeiou
just in case people don't get the joke https://youtu.be/Hv6RbEOlqRo
The in-game chat's support for music will never cease to amaze me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNPKXfb3rws