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- fragomatik, on 01/13/2009, -0/+9In the 50's SF novel "The Moon Is Hell" by John W. Campbell, scientist-astronauts stranded on the moon with dwindling supplies, learn to manufacture almost everything they need by processing the lunar regolith. Perhaps a bit dated, but still a pretty good read with some good old fashion science in it.
- MarcieCastillo, on 01/13/2009, -0/+8I hope they succeed.
- mistermaster, on 01/13/2009, -0/+7Those mistakes are annoying, yeah, but I usually turn a blind eye.
Now, when it's a copy/paste of the original article, "corrected" to make it wrong... Ok, I'm with you. - Azerael, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6The moon has ice caps, y'know.
- RealmDown, on 01/13/2009, -1/+6If by "dusted" you meant "buried" then I am happy to be of service.
- RealmDown, on 01/13/2009, -0/+3As is most anything by John W. Campbell, including anthologies.
- presidentraygun, on 01/13/2009, -0/+2There is nothing better than Golden Age Hard Sci Fi
- Ragzouken, on 01/13/2009, -1/+3'so that we can combine it with what’s left of the residual hydrogen from the descent tanks and make water'
- uptwolait, on 01/13/2009, -0/+1Lunaforming. Hell yeah!
Bonus: I love green cheese. - 4DFX, on 01/13/2009, -2/+3And that, children, is what we call vaporware.
- rustintable, on 01/13/2009, -0/+1Helium 3
...
Profit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3 - inactive, on 01/15/2009, -1/+1Cheese, Gromit, Cheeeese...
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+1cool!
- turiya04, on 01/13/2009, -4/+4The lunar dust holds a wealth of apostrophes.
- untzboy, on 01/13/2009, -1/+1I hope they drop a Firelance.
- presidentraygun, on 01/13/2009, -2/+2"Our goal is to never send a tank of water or oxygen to the moon."
I'm betting there are some Astronauts that would disagree with that sentiment. - diggitdawg, on 01/14/2009, -1/+1Okay, now we've got our oxygen. Next on the agenda is how to deal with that persistent, pesky cosmic radiation, which can cook you through like a well done steak. I guess we could build our igloo/teepee/RV on the dark side of the moon where it's like one million degrees below freakin' zero (okay I may be off by one or two magnitudes of error). I guess we could build inside the permanent shadow of a deep crater. Wait a minute! There are freakin' craters up here! OMFG! This can't be a good neighborhood. Oh, and then there's the nasty little problem of meteorites - even one the size of a grain of sand zipping along at oh, one million miles an hour, can make for a really bad day. Finally, there's the really humongous problem of how to get ESPN. I'm not going to the moon without my freakin' ESPN. That's the deal breaker right there. F**k oxygen!
- neftaly, on 01/13/2009, -3/+2Cool! At least, it was when I read the same thing in a PopSci magazine about 10 years ago.
Now it's kinda old... - neftaly, on 01/13/2009, -2/+1I understand the "lunar joke mines" were a complete failure -.-
- AaronCo, on 01/13/2009, -4/+2Ok, so oxygen... that's good, right? What about hydrogen? Other than a portable nuclear reactor, how are they going to get that part of water?
And while we're working on moon-related problems, how about finding a way to make traveling there profitable... so we have a reason to return. - Paranor01, on 01/13/2009, -7/+4You know what the top 2 type of people I really don't like ?
#1. Religious fundamentalists / fanatics
#2. F'n Grammar Nazi's - grandhi, on 01/13/2009, -7/+2did they try digging there??......i mean for water :P
- ziggotron, on 01/13/2009, -16/+11It's? Learn your contractions.
http://www.english-zone.com/spelling/cont-01.html - mattofasia, on 01/13/2009, -22/+2First!
Lets get dusted!
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