“Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies”
Grifters gonna grift.
I know I wouldn’t send a manned mission to the moon and NOT try to build a moon base.
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Shackleton identified, establishing Jamestown now.
I call Moon Marine !
No shit there are caves on the moon. Have these scientists never watched The Clangers?
This would be especially nice if water ice was discovered inside
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
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.
Listen, I’ve been in an asteroid’s cave in Outer Wilds and I didn’t fucking like it.
Hey, at least there aren’t any fish there, right? 😅
Reject humanity, become Moon mole
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.”
This is so exciting because it sounds doable. Unlike Mars, which is a tragedy awaiting the overconfident.
A tragedy awaiting the prisoner slaves we send there.
Australia 2.0!
