hmmm... repelling ionized dust. A tough one. Maybe place a static charge on the solar collector? What happens if the dust gets into the control rods of the reactor, or becomes RADIOACTIVE dust that sticks to everything? Yes I see your point, lets go with the nuke.
Also, stuff hits the moon. A reactor would have to be buried very deep to prevent or reduce the possibility of being smashed. A smashed solar collector can be melted down and recycled. Also collectors can be scattered so one collision doesn't destroy the power source. Just tap solar power from the fusion reactor 93 million miles away with MTBF around 10 billion years.
(BTW, moon and Mars manned bases are probably going to end up being deep underground for temperature moderation and safety from colliding bodies, and because underground construction would be easier in lower gravity. Any ideas how to do all the digging?)
good point, build several on the moon equator, or at the poles. we probably want to live at the poles anyway to be able to moderate between extremely hot and cold temps. Yes I think building a solar cell in a vacuum should be pretty easy compared to repairing a broken reactor. Also I don't like the idea of GE owning the power on the moon.
great idea. instead of building a small factory on the moon to use solar power to make glass and eventually all the components of solar cells from materials on the moon, and to store energy if needed in caves full of rock melted with solar energy, let's consider an alternative method: launching nuclear material from the earth's surface to the moon, requiring all sorts of high-tech, risky, and expensive stuff which can be provided by our friendly gluttonous military contractors. I like it, especially the part about solar energy being unreliable on the moon.
Good start, let's continue...
Guns?
Cars?
Medicine?
Education?
Hatch can't be serious but there are lots of right wingers out there in morally superior land just thinking he's a great guy when he's obviously just pandering to them.
He may be miffed because the memos about the justification of torture by our administration leaked out. This free flow of information can really ruin a good secret torture program.
So a bunch of galaxies are in a line. We need to watch for a few billion years to see if they were formed in a line or randomly moved until they lined up. Sometimes my alphabits spell words when I'm eating breakfast, but when that happens I don't go looking on the box for some kind of word processing engine. I didn't see anything about whether coincidence was ruled out for this configuration.
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hmmm... repelling ionized dust. A tough one. Maybe place a static charge on the solar collector? What happens if the dust gets into the control rods of the reactor, or becomes RADIOACTIVE dust that sticks to everything? Yes I see your point, lets go with the nuke.
Also, stuff hits the moon. A reactor would have to be buried very deep to prevent or reduce the possibility of being smashed. A smashed solar collector can be melted down and recycled. Also collectors can be scattered so one collision doesn't destroy the power source. Just tap solar power from the fusion reactor 93 million miles away with MTBF around 10 billion years.
(BTW, moon and Mars manned bases are probably going to end up being deep underground for temperature moderation and safety from colliding bodies, and because underground construction would be easier in lower gravity. Any ideas how to do all the digging?)
good point, build several on the moon equator, or at the poles. we probably want to live at the poles anyway to be able to moderate between extremely hot and cold temps. Yes I think building a solar cell in a vacuum should be pretty easy compared to repairing a broken reactor. Also I don't like the idea of GE owning the power on the moon.
great idea. instead of building a small factory on the moon to use solar power to make glass and eventually all the components of solar cells from materials on the moon, and to store energy if needed in caves full of rock melted with solar energy, let's consider an alternative method: launching nuclear material from the earth's surface to the moon, requiring all sorts of high-tech, risky, and expensive stuff which can be provided by our friendly gluttonous military contractors. I like it, especially the part about solar energy being unreliable on the moon.
Good start, let's continue... Guns? Cars? Medicine? Education? Hatch can't be serious but there are lots of right wingers out there in morally superior land just thinking he's a great guy when he's obviously just pandering to them. He may be miffed because the memos about the justification of torture by our administration leaked out. This free flow of information can really ruin a good secret torture program.
So a bunch of galaxies are in a line. We need to watch for a few billion years to see if they were formed in a line or randomly moved until they lined up. Sometimes my alphabits spell words when I'm eating breakfast, but when that happens I don't go looking on the box for some kind of word processing engine. I didn't see anything about whether coincidence was ruled out for this configuration.