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When On the Moon and Mars, Move Underground
astroengine writes "Recent observations of the lunar and martian surface are turning up multiple discoveries of 'skylights' — collapsed roofs of hollow rilles or lava tubes. These holes into ready-made underground bunkers could provide ideal shelter for future manned bases on the two worlds. Firstly, they would provide shelter from the barrage of micrometeorites, solar x-rays and deep space cosmic rays. Secondly, they'd help protect our burgeoning colonists from the extreme swings in surface temperature (on the moon, temperatures vary by 500 degrees F, but inside these lava tubes, the environment remains at a fairly constant -35 degrees). Thirdly, the sci-fi notion of underground space cities could become a reality."
It's a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to live underground on earth.
I thought we agreed to kill any NASA funding that looked like it might be headed towards progress?
(captcha: realist)
The moon mole people--though defenseless and inviting--were no match for our rail guns and bunker busting missiles. After denying hailing frequency after hailing frequency of cultural exchange, I fearlessly and heroically protected the Earth by sitting at rest in a fully armored spaceship at the Earth/Moon L1 position. In a very sensual valour snuggie I drank the hot cocoa of the gods as wave after wave of our warriors bounced around the moon exterminating the moon mole people with golf clubs, the very same fearsome weapon used by the first of our warriors to set foot on the moon decades ago.
President Nixon, I present to you a new settlement and planet completely safe and devoid of the once furry stubby armed moon mole people!
My work here is dung.
Famous last words.
Staring Vin Diesel.
Duh! You just travel at night!
So, if we get that far, we'll be lunar cave men.
Someone wanna translate this into units of measurement used by, oh I dunno, the entire rest of the world?
How about you convert the unit via the search engine used by oh, I dunno, the entire rest of the world? (except for China)
Or how about this - land a person on the Moon and return them safely, and we'll bitch about your using metric. Now go back to playing your vuvuzela and watching SOCCER.
Someone wanna translate this into units of measurement used by, oh I dunno, the entire rest of the world?
Imagine ice that freezes at the temperature that our water boils. And then bring that to a boil. And then stick your face in the steam.
about 5 maxed out P4 cpu's
It all boils down to a system of tubes?
One that hath name thou can not otter
Space colonists will be selected from a population conditioned to survive underground for extended periods.
Their parents' basement.
Have gnu, will travel.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I suppose that's better than No Eye Contact Vin Diesel.
Sand's overrated... it's just tiny little rocks.
So basically people from Minnesota could just move there.
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
Because the stuff I've read clearly calls for moon settlements to have transparent glass domes.
So you want your underground Moon colony, but having a hard time getting funding for the project? No problem. Just spin to them as an ultra secure penal facility.
The politicians can now say the public is safe because the prisoners have no way of getting back home. The prison industry will love it. All that extra cash flow and stuff. The scientific community at large will now have a reason to turn a blind eye. And if they die in the vacuum of space, no one will care.
When you send mankind into space, expect all of it's demons that make up Humanity to follow right behind.
Life is not for the lazy.
"...ready-made underground bunkers could provide ideal shelter..."
said ideal shelters detected by collapsed roofs.
Exogeologist: "Look at that collapsed cave! We could live in there."
Pilot: "Sure, you go in first perfesser."
This beats the astronauts' old "built by the lowest bidder" grumbles all to hell.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B