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NASA Considers Mobile Lunar Base
colonist writes "During the Apollo missions, astronauts explored on foot or in rovers. The next astronauts on the moon may move the entire base instead. Marc Cohen, from NASA's Ames Research Center, proposes a lunar base on wheels or legs, such as the habot (robotic habitat) or the mobitat (mobile habitat). Cohen considers mobile bases superior to rovers: 'To avoid life-threatening or other compromising situations that might occur with only one rover traveling to a remote place, a second rover might travel with the first. But what if the second rover runs into a problem, too - the same or a different problem? Well, that means a third rover. So, why not make the entire base mobile, so that all the resources, reliability and redundancy of the lunar mission move with the excursion crew?' Of course, mobile bases are nothing new. Terran buildings have been lifting off for years."
What if we steal other countries bases. You have a few up there and they grab them all and steer them into the sea of tranquillity. What then, you're stuck outside, without a clue where your base went. And we will leave you with a little TNT.
You can only say to your friend "Someone set up us the bomb."
Because, "All your base, are belong to us."
Okay, so its a pretty long tangent for a pretty crappy joke, de-mod my shiny metal ass.
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"Yeah, man.. that Moon-Winnebago thing is pretty out there.."
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