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Moon Science! NASA Needs Experiment Ideas for Commercial Lunar Landers
Space.com ^
| October 18, 2018 01:46pm ET
| Meghan Bartels,
Posted on 10/18/2018 2:59:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
With proper design a telescope could be useful even when the sun is up, since there is no or very little atmosphere.
If that's not good enough, build two, one near the west and the other near the east far side, the time both are in sunlight at the same time would be relatively brief.
Radio telescopes could be better.
Figure out the best way to make building materials out of available moon material.
Figure out how to best dig down and make underground habitats, which would make better protection against radiation and meteorites than anything on the surface.
Discover and catalogue as many moon minerals as possible and figure out if each of them can be made useful for anything.
Find something that will make the whole adventure pay for itself.
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posted on
10/18/2018 3:30:15 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Empireoftheatom48
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posted on
10/18/2018 3:31:01 PM PDT
by
MAGAthon
To: a fool in paradise
Yep, let’s create a colony of moslems and test which moon rock they will bow down to. Can they figure out the direction to Mecca? What if they are actually kneeling to Los Angeles or Buenos Aires? Would they be able to build a return rocket out of indigenous materials?
So many unanswered questions that NASA could investigate.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/18/2018 3:48:07 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(..)
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
10/18/2018 3:48:38 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
In order to be selected, projects must be able to fly no later than December 2021. Proposals are due Nov. 19. But if that deadline is coming up too quickly, don’t panic - NASA says it will look for another round of suggestions in about a year.
To be announced four days before expiration ...
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posted on
10/18/2018 3:50:35 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Develop a lunar lander that seats 200 Hondurans.
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10/18/2018 3:55:09 PM PDT
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pfflier
To: Grimmy
Dark side of the moon would be a nifty place for a telescope. Radio telescope, sure.
Optical telescope? Sunlight, gravity, dust, and infrastructure needs makes a pure space-based system better.
To: BenLurkin
Cracking Cheese Grommet!
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posted on
10/18/2018 4:24:02 PM PDT
by
Safrguns
To: BenLurkin
Yeah NASA... Right!... we know what your up to!!!
WE KNOW IT WAS ALL FAKE!!!
Now we have evidence the earth is flat too!
Gee.. when u guys gonna give up on all this round earth stuff huh???
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10/18/2018 4:26:46 PM PDT
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Safrguns
To: Safrguns
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10/18/2018 4:56:13 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
10/18/2018 5:25:46 PM PDT
by
dhs12345
To: KarlInOhio
There is no permanent dark side of the moon. There is a near side we can see and a far side we cant, but any point gets two weeks of sun and two weeks of darkness. And, compared to space, it is a terrible place for a telescope.
A major telescope is a large, very precise instrument. The temperature changes associated with going from full sun to full shade make any telescope very hard to design and very expensive compared to the uniform environment of space.
To: Empireoftheatom48
Are you saying Pink Floyd lied to me?
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10/18/2018 7:01:12 PM PDT
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Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: BenLurkin
As a serious proposal, they may wish to do some lunar surface experimentation with some Tesla coils and other charged field generating devices, with a view towards learning how to manage and control Lunar Dust.
Managing the destructive persistence of Lunar dust is likely one of the biggest challenges to the long term success of any permanent Lunar operations.
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10/18/2018 8:49:15 PM PDT
by
EasySt
To: fieldmarshaldj
Automated augering machine to check the temperature gradient and test for strata laid down as impact ejecta.
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posted on
10/18/2018 10:36:59 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: BenLurkin
Some may use an already designed, built and tested model, such as the Masten Xombie, seen here
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10/19/2018 6:10:04 AM PDT
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jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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