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"Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies"

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's where they keep all the cheese.

[–] Gsus4 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Sssshh don't go telling Nicholas Cage where our national treasures are kept.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is great even from the standpoint of wanting to go to Mars since it means setting up camp in a cave is now possible to try out much closer to home first. Kinda like sleeping in a tent in your backyard first. Makes the moon that much more exciting to know there's caves too.

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Moon has different challenges though. One being no erosion, moon dust is abrasive af.

[–] Gsus4 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yea, like a giant pile of statically charged asbestos that are hard to clean away.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

So, together it sounds like you guys are saying that moon dust is "coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They've found hitting it with microwaves sinters it together pretty readily, so that would be the likely way they'd deal with it. Apparently also an effective way of making bricks out of it!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Listen, I've been in an asteroid's cave in Outer Wilds and I didn't fucking like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hey, at least there aren't any fish there, right? 😅

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In fact, we might be able live there.

“Lunar cave systems have been proposed as great places to site future crewed bases, as the thick cave ceiling of rock is ideal to protect people and infrastructure from the wildly varying day-night lunar surface temperature variations and to block high energy radiation which bathes the lunar surface,” said Katherine Joy, professor in earth sciences at the University of Manchester. “However, we currently know very little about the underground structures below these pit entrances.”

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[–] Gsus4 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

This is so exciting because it sounds doable. Unlike Mars, which is a tragedy awaiting the overconfident.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

~~a tragedy awaiting the overconfident~~ a fun destination for billionaire excursions!

We’ll let them work out the kinks first, you just gotta know how to sell it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A tragedy awaiting the prisoner slaves we send there.

Australia 2.0!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i wonder if the craters ground has 5-15 meters of regolith too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Just throw it out

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No shit there are caves on the moon. Have these scientists never watched The Clangers?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Hear me out...

The Descent but it's on the moon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Or the game Descent. Although that already took place in space.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Okay I haven't seen that movie, so I was confused cause I could have sworn you visited many moons in the first Descent game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

So many movies to redo.

The Cave...On the Moon

Cave of Forgotten Dreams...On the Moon

The Clan of the Moon Cave Bear

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The Notebook, but it's on the moon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

40 year old virgin, but it's on the moon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Or Dig, which was on an asteroid that became Earth’s second moon.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Shackleton identified, establishing Jamestown now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I call Moon Marine !

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This would be especially nice if water ice was discovered inside

[–] Gsus4 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean, lunar water exists...they just have to figure out if it flows when the moon faces the sun for 14 days at a time and gathers in these lava tunnels or stays in the form of beads

https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-amounts-of-water-on-the-moon-may-have-just-been-located

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

one must commend Hergé's research.

to show moon caves in Explorers on the Moon sixteen years before the moon landing in an era without the internet is some freaky stuff.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Finally some good news. The discovery of the Prothean ruins will bring the entire world together.

[–] gnutrino 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Got to get to Mars for those

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

“Get your ass to Mars.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I know I wouldn't send a manned mission to the moon and NOT try to build a moon base.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We have come so far first roaming the land living in caves then agriculture and science.

Then we went to the moon where we roamed the land and lived in caves.....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Reject humanity, become Moon mole