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Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors
smooth wombat writes "Wired has a story which talks about a danger to possible future inhabitants of the Moon that is rarely brought up: the highly abrasive lunar dust. Unlike Earth, the Moon has no erosive capabilities to smooth the edges of rocks or dust. As a result the lunar dust has arms that stick out, like Velcro, and sticks to everything. As the astronauts who walked on the moon found out, the dust scratched lenses and corroded seals within hours. Some of the particles are only microns across which means once they get into your lungs, they stay there. This could cause a lung disease similar to silicosis."
First landing... dann it's dusty here.. :(
Here's a story explaining Lunar Dust and a nice pic too.
Regardless, it is good to learn now that even when I migrate to a moon colony, I can go outside and club baby seals to death for fun and profit.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
You're joking, right? /. is regularly scooped by memepool. Its not a sad day, its a sad existence.
You must be new here. Slashdot stopped being anywhere close to "new" and "relevant" many years ago. Christ, what with scooping stories from everywhere else months after the fact and the numerous duplicate posts, I'm amazed these guys can still get paid for what they're doing. I feel sorry for anyone who actually has a subscription to this site. Now, that's sad.
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten! LOL!
*Posted anonymously to save dignity*
Using "Liberal" as an insult? Someone's been drinking the kool-aid...
Funny. The exact same joke targetting democrats instead of republicans gets modded troll, while the origional was funny.
...couldn't have said it better myself.
So where does that leave the conservative slashdot fanboys with their heads up their asses?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Yeah, jokes usually just get funnier when you make up some stupid shit and insert it into the same joke that was just applied to you.
In conclusion, I know you are but what am I?
Wow, are you a fucking stupid troll. You like milk, ice cream, choclolate, yougurt? Where do you think all that milk comes from? Dairy farmers do more in a half hour than you do all week.