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The article mentions the use of inflatable housing inside. Seems like a wise move given we have so little experience with their stability. If they've survived
by ballenf 9y ago
The article mentions the use of inflatable housing inside. Seems like a wise move given we have so little experience with their stability.
If they've survived this long, then presumably they are very unlikely to collapse on their own. That is, settlers would only need to worry about collapse cause by their own movements.
The odds of them being 'on the verge of collapse' are relatively low in my thinking. Unless there is some process that takes them to the edge and then stops that we don't understand. Otherwise, they are likely to have either already collapsed or be somewhat stable.
- QAPereo 9y agoThe moon is pretty dead, so no processes exist... if they’re stable, barring asteroid strike. They’d remain stable. The problem is metastability, the “death block” problem in ice climbing.
- millettjon 9y agoThere are moonquakes so not completely dead. https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/15mar_moonquakes.html https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/15mar_moonquakes.html
- valuearb 9y agoWouldn’t the acceleration of falling objects be slow enough that the force delivered be much lessened?