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Site for Moon Base Determined

Deinhard writes "Going hand-in-hand with the recent discussion on Moon Bases, Space.com is reporting that the perfect spot for a moon base has been found. According to the article, 'the best spot to settle on the Moon may be on the northern rim of Peary crater, close to the north pole.' What makes the location so important is that it is permanently lit, with a balmy -58 Fahrenheit (-50 C)."

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  1. Hello Slashdot reader, I am Ignignot & this is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are Mooninites from the inner core of the Moon. Our race is hundreds of years behind yours. Some would say that the Earth is our moon, but that would belittle the name of our moon, which is The Moon.

    For one thing, the Moon has one third less gravity than your Earth. I don't know if you can understand that, but our vertical leap is beyond all measurement.

    On the Moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with Moonrocks.

  2. Re:Hello Slashdot reader, I am Ignignot & this by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fine, I'll build my own moon base! With blackjack...and hookers...in fact, forget the base!

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  3. And now... by Tuxedo+Jack · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can build the Alan Parsons Project.

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  4. Re:Hello Slashdot reader, I am Ignignot & this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I suppose you'd be a good person to ask who wrote "The Moon Rulez" on my car with a key.

  5. Too bad... by polyp2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I own that bit of the moon, i have a certificate to prove it.

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    1. Re:Too bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well in that case, you'd better get up there before anyone else and protect your claim!

    2. Re:Too bad... by blogeasy · · Score: 3, Funny

      It looks like the standard price for land on the moon is $18.95/acre. Maybe they could buy you out.

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  6. -50c?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "But Keptin, this is the Garden spot of Ceti Alpha 6"

  7. Always??? by Fnagaton · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What makes the location so important is that it is permanently lit"

    Even during a lunar eclipse? ;)

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    1. Re:Always??? by h4rm0ny · · Score: 4, Funny


      Tell you what, build the base on the other side of the moon and send Goths. Lots of Goths.

      Gothsss in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

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  8. Penguins are awesome. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    -50 isn't so bad. Almost tolerable. To penguins or something. Maybe we could make a penguin farm on the moon.

  9. watch out for water ice! by Zapraki · · Score: 5, Funny
    in the permanently shadowed depths of craters around the lunar north pole, water ice may lurk...

    Wow, I didn't realize that the moon was going to be so dangerous, what with water ice lurking in the inky blackness and all.

    Kinda reminds me of playing Xcom2: Terror from the Deep...

    1. Re:watch out for water ice! by Snarfangel · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wow, I didn't realize that the moon was going to be so dangerous, what with water ice lurking in the inky blackness and all.

      It is pitch black. You are likely to be drowned by Water.
      >light lantern
      That does nothing. It appears the lantern's batteries are dead.
      >scream for help
      In space, no one can hear you scream.

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  10. Hmm by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's important to me that my moon base have all 4 seasons.

    Will I get that there?

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  11. Re:Expected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there some sort of fat virgin shortage on the moon?

  12. Re:Finance: Money for Moon Base Unknown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    He forgot Poland!

  13. Re:Moon Bases in Oregon by natoochtoniket · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great idea. Oregon would be an ideal place to build a moon base. Not only could we use the lava tubes for potection against solar radiation, but the logistics would be much simpler and cheaper. Putting everything on rockets and sending it a quarter million (or so) miles to the moon would be really difficult and expensive. It would so much easier to just have it delivered to Oregon in the first place. UPS and Fedex even go there, already.

  14. Re:Dammit, skip the moon, go to Mars... by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 3, Funny
    Iraq is just a big desert

    Yes, just a big desert, chock full of raw materials we need our war against Iran, and with only 1/6 the popularity and no insurgents, it's easy to get those materials into the market. "Skipping" Iraq is just wack (pardon the pun). Once established, the Iraq war will pay for itself countless times over. --

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  15. Re:Finance: Money for Moon Base Unknown by terrymr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Something D O O ecconomics, anyone ... anyone .... VOO DOO ecconomics.

  16. I am Gnotigna, Royal Daughter of Ignignot by LPetrazickis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hello, beloved earthlings.

    We have been observing your earthworld with moonminds vast and merry for many moonyears. You earthtechnological earthachievements are moonimpressive to our moonminds.

    Unfortunately, we mooninites are fighting a civil moonwar. Moonsibling is killing moonsibling. As Moonheir to the Moonthrone, I am trusted with protecting the ample Moontreasury.

    Fellow sapients, the Moon needs your earthhelp. I need to transfer the equivalent of $50,000 USD to two thousand and one Earth banking accounts. In order to do so, my moonsubterfuge moonskills will have to deceive the earthbankers.

    I plead with you on my moonknees.

    Please let me transfer $50,000 USD to your earthaccount. The moonmoney will have to stay earthhidden for at least pi earthdecades. I trust you will earthsafeguard it from the moonpretenders to the Moonthrone.

    We will moonreward all earthhumans moongenerously.

    In order for me to transfer $50,000 to you, I need an initial earthmoney fund to earthbribe the earthbankers. Please send me $500 now, and I will moonreimburse you in the transfer.

    The Moon cries out for your earthhelp as the moonpretenders moonrape, moonravage, and moonraze their way to my moonpalace. Please take my $50,000.

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  17. Good location by Fillymon · · Score: 3, Funny

    you sure wouldn't want to stick it where the sun don't shine.

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