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>Watching it I got the distinct impression that the story was not as it was described -- the mission involved 3,000 m of tunnels, included a shop, theater, and
by fineIllregister 10y ago
>Watching it I got the distinct impression that the story was not as it was described -- the mission involved 3,000 m of tunnels, included a shop, theater, and church, some 200 men, and a nuclear reactor for power generation. That's a lot of men and materiel just for a science mission.
How does that compare to scientific missions in Antarctica?
- dredmorbius 10y agoWell, you might want to consider what besides science might be going on there. And no, I don't know that there is or what it might be. I do know of severaal very large "science" projects with a significant military role or side mission. The US and Soviet manned space programmes, particularly Apollo and the Space Shuttle (though the USAF customer of the latter ultimately pursued alternate options). Much nuclear and high-energy research, including related supercomputing facilities, have direct nuclear weapons relations. Radio astronomy got a huge kick froma desire to monitor opposing superpower activities. The US National Radio Quiet Are in West Virginia and Aricebo dish both had roles in detecting Soviet nuclear tests, through radio signatures bounced off the Moon. The US Interstate system was sold on defence implications. Oracle Corporation grew out of the CIA's Project Oracle. And of course there was a little resilient networking project SRI and UCLA were working on some years ago.