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It's tidally locked, so you couldn't you put the settlement on the Earth-facing side and not have to worry as much about meteors?
by omellet 9y ago
It's tidally locked, so you couldn't you put the settlement on the Earth-facing side and not have to worry as much about meteors?
- antaviana 9y agoWell, it's like holding a shield of a radius of only 6,371 km with an arm of 384,400 km long. Or to put it in human terms, like holding a shield of 1.25 cm of radius with your arm of 75 cm. It will not protect you really very much.
- holtalanm 9y agoI was thinking the same thing. Earth will shield the moon on the Earth-side, mostly.
- christophilus 9y agoThat seems to make sense, but if you look at the moon from Earth, you see an awful lot of craters...