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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 2 years ago (1 children)

It's where they keep all the cheese.

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] vetehinen@lethallava.land 50 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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."

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years 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.”

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

A tragedy awaiting the prisoner slaves we send there.

Australia 2.0!

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Just throw it out

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] ianovic69@feddit.uk 25 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Wow, imagine living in a submarine that can't go up to the surface. Diving suits required to exit into oblivion in order to board the little transit sub, then a long slow return ending with a hot, bumpy fall. Any point of which is very likely to kill you should even the slightest thing go wrong, of which the chances are pretty high to begin with.

Astronauts are mad, but living in a cave on the moon is next level crazy.

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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Hear me out...

The Descent but it's on the moon.

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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 2 years 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

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The Notebook, but it's on the moon.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shackleton identified, establishing Jamestown now.

[–] urda@lebowski.social 4 points 2 years ago

I call Moon Marine !

[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This would be especially nice if water ice was discovered inside

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got to get to Mars for those

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

“Get your ass to Mars.”

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] gari_9812@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Reject humanity, become Moon mole