Private Russian Company Proposes Lunar Base

MarkWhittington writes According to an article in Sputnik, a private Russian company called Lin Industrial has announced that it is capable of building a lunar base. However, according to information contained to a recent post in Parabolic Arc, this announcement may be more the result of idle boasting than an objective assessment of actual ability. Nevertheless, Lin seems to be one of the few entrepreneurial startups in Russia in the style of much more robust enterprises in the West such as SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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This is what qualifies as "news" here these days..

[Frosty Piss]

Random boasting from people unable to carry them out... Well, they better not build it where all those time-share lots have been sold...

With blackjack and hookers, I presume?

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Ridiculous.

me, too!1!

[waynemcdougall]

I, too, am capable of building a lunar base.

I just need some funding. And a rocket. And a team of trained engineers/astronauts (both, not either or).

Rocket fuel, I guess. And plans. Plans would be good.

But I am totally capable.

Re:OOOOhh!! Me too!! Me too!!!

[Frosty Piss]

You have no technical knowledge, financial means, or support from the government. In other words, you're a loser and no one cares about your proposal.

Exactly. And does "Lin Industrial"? Probably not.

Who are these people? Are they more than a couple of guys looking for "venture capital" to spend for a few years? Any actual rocket know-how? Do they employ an office full of qualified Russian rocket engineers?

I can't find anything - English or Russian - about these people, who's backing them, what their experience level is. My guess is that it's a pipe dream of flat out a way to sponge up "venture capital".

Re:Russians had the most expensive olymic games

[qpqp]

Go look in your own backyard, before trying to shit in someone else's, punk.

Scamming investors can be profitable

[billstewart]

There are two kinds of people who announce they can do something like that - the ones who don't have a clue how hard it is, and the ones who don't care because their objective is to scam investors. (Seasteading's a lot easier, but most of the proposals I've seen for that have been the scammer types.)

Yes, getting enough equipment up to the moon to build a moon base is something you can do if you've got enough cash. Doing it as a private industry (rather than a government doing it) means you also need a revenue model once you've built it, and if you've done due diligence you won't find much revenue up there, even if you manage to get rid of inconvenient UN treaties that ban owning the moon.

But building an ecosystem that can sustain your moon colony is really hard; we don't know how to keep small pilot projects like Biosphere II running for very long without cheating and restocking the atmosphere, or how to build dirt without a ready supply of nitrogen and phosphate to grow plants with. It's a lot easier to deal with that on a moon base than on Mars, because you can send an occasional care package, but it's not like the convenience of restocking the International Space Station (which doesn't recycle most of its resources either.)

Re:Russians had the most expensive olymic games

[Kjella]

At the same token, in Russia, significant part of population still uses outhouses, average life expectancy of males is 50 years

Do I smell a troill? It's currently 65 years and the lowest it's been since 1950 is 58 years.