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Moon's biggest problem is the abrasiveness of moon dust. Without oxygen and water, the dust is very spiky. It sticks to everything, instantly matting spacesuit
by idiocrat 6y ago
Moon's biggest problem is the abrasiveness of moon dust.
Without oxygen and water, the dust is very spiky.
It sticks to everything, instantly matting spacesuits masks, wears our door hinges.
On Earth the sand can be a nasty element, but the moon's dust is really an aggressive beast.
- blueblisters 6y agoI imagine using some sort of electrostatic cleaning would probably be a first stab at solving this problem.
- andromeduck 6y agoWouldn't it be much easier to just drop nukes and glass a wide area? It'd probably also provide pretty decent platform to build on.
- ben_w 6y agoNukes in space don’t act the same as nukes in air. The total energy is the same, but the fireball needs an atmosphere, and you need the fireball to shift the energy from a point-like source of hard X-rays to a big ball of IR. This is also why Project Orion isn’t quite as self-destructive as it seems at first glance. I guess you could pave the Moon with a rover and some Fresnel lenses though?