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"Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies"

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's where they keep all the cheese.

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Sssshh don't go telling Nicholas Cage where our national treasures are kept.

[–] vetehinen@lethallava.land 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is great even from the standpoint of wanting to go to Mars since it means setting up camp in a cave is now possible to try out much closer to home first. Kinda like sleeping in a tent in your backyard first. Makes the moon that much more exciting to know there's caves too.

@technology@lemmy.world

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Moon has different challenges though. One being no erosion, moon dust is abrasive af.

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yea, like a giant pile of statically charged asbestos that are hard to clean away.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

So, together it sounds like you guys are saying that moon dust is "coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere."

[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago
[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They've found hitting it with microwaves sinters it together pretty readily, so that would be the likely way they'd deal with it. Apparently also an effective way of making bricks out of it!

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Listen, I've been in an asteroid's cave in Outer Wilds and I didn't fucking like it.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hey, at least there aren't any fish there, right? 😅

[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In fact, we might be able live there.

“Lunar cave systems have been proposed as great places to site future crewed bases, as the thick cave ceiling of rock is ideal to protect people and infrastructure from the wildly varying day-night lunar surface temperature variations and to block high energy radiation which bathes the lunar surface,” said Katherine Joy, professor in earth sciences at the University of Manchester. “However, we currently know very little about the underground structures below these pit entrances.”

Source

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

This is so exciting because it sounds doable. Unlike Mars, which is a tragedy awaiting the overconfident.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

~~a tragedy awaiting the overconfident~~ a fun destination for billionaire excursions!

We’ll let them work out the kinks first, you just gotta know how to sell it.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A tragedy awaiting the prisoner slaves we send there.

Australia 2.0!

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i wonder if the craters ground has 5-15 meters of regolith too?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Just throw it out

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No shit there are caves on the moon. Have these scientists never watched The Clangers?

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Hear me out...

The Descent but it's on the moon.

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Or the game Descent. Although that already took place in space.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Okay I haven't seen that movie, so I was confused cause I could have sworn you visited many moons in the first Descent game.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

So many movies to redo.

The Cave...On the Moon

Cave of Forgotten Dreams...On the Moon

The Clan of the Moon Cave Bear

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The Notebook, but it's on the moon.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

40 year old virgin, but it's on the moon.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Or Dig, which was on an asteroid that became Earth’s second moon.

[–] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shackleton identified, establishing Jamestown now.

[–] urda@lebowski.social 4 points 4 months ago

I call Moon Marine !

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

one must commend Hergé's research.

to show moon caves in Explorers on the Moon sixteen years before the moon landing in an era without the internet is some freaky stuff.

[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This would be especially nice if water ice was discovered inside

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, lunar water exists...they just have to figure out if it flows when the moon faces the sun for 14 days at a time and gathers in these lava tunnels or stays in the form of beads

https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-amounts-of-water-on-the-moon-may-have-just-been-located

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Finally some good news. The discovery of the Prothean ruins will bring the entire world together.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Got to get to Mars for those

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

“Get your ass to Mars.”

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

I know I wouldn't send a manned mission to the moon and NOT try to build a moon base.

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

We have come so far first roaming the land living in caves then agriculture and science.

Then we went to the moon where we roamed the land and lived in caves.....

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] gari_9812@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Reject humanity, become Moon mole