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Caves of the Moon
jeno passes along this excerpt from New Scientist:
"A deep hole on the moon that could open into a vast underground tunnel has been found for the first time. The discovery strengthens evidence for subsurface, lava-carved channels that could shield future human colonists from space radiation and other hazards. ... The hole measures 65 meters across, and based on images taken at a variety of sun angles, the hole is thought to extend down at least 80 meters. It sits in the middle of a rille, suggesting the hole leads into a lava tube as wide as 370 meters across."
Beware the mole people!
The moon is a harsh mistress...
"It sits in the middle of a rille, suggesting the hole leads into a lava tube as wide as 370 meters across."
This is really cool, but the main problem with living in lava tubes is...
LAVA.
3.5 billion years into existence and we've finally hit the first plot point.
That's no moon! It's a space station.
That hole is probably where it fires its main weapon from.
A similar hole was discovered on Uranus...
And I thought, the moon would just Goatse us. ^^
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
I'm on ur moon, controlin ur destiny
I call dibs on the prayer fans. 10% of sales and discoveries from prayer fans goes to me, the rest you keep.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
The moon isn't like a truck - it's a series of tubes.
Who is this we?
Do you have some sort of multiple personality disorder?
I guess your collective has no sense of humor "Your sense of comedy will be assimilated, resistance is futile, clowns are irrelevant"
Hehehehe too fun :)
... I've got a bad feeling about this.
It might be the cave where Osama Bin Laden is hiding.
Clearly this is strong evidence to suggest the Moon is made of Swiss cheese.
a moon-caveman could do it?
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
...and watch as the lava tube explodes! (assuming it's airtight enough to pressurize in the first place)