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How about two bases? Simply move people and critical experiments to the other base before nightfall.
by TomK32 4y ago
How about two bases? Simply move people and critical experiments to the other base before nightfall.
- Panzer04 4y agoTravelling a few thousand km is probably harder than just running a wire around the moon ;)
- Oxidation 4y agoEspecially when you have to do it every 2 weeks.
- atoav 4y agoBut is it the same amount of fun?
- TomK32 4y agoYou probably want to travel anyways for exploration and mapping.
- funnymony 4y agoDo you? If we assume robots building stuff. Mapping is a task way easier to automate.
- burnished 4y agoLunar cowboys arent gonna be robbing no wire, nosirree, lunar rail is a necessity.
- rad_gruchalski 4y agoWe can’t outrun it forever…
- atoav 4y agoOne base, on stilts, constantly walking with the sun.
- greenbit 4y agoGoing to need roads for that. Might as well construct rails. A circum-lunar railway! Probably want to build that at 80 degrees latitude or more, the trade off being solar angle vs material costs.
- atoav 4y agoGod, frickin lunar railways. Truly the future of everything.
- euroderf 4y agoAnd they don't have to be big. More on the scale of those little trains at fairgrounds.
- ben_w 4y agoIf you build rails, you'll get a free good-enough conductor for getting power from the other side, even before you think about putting anything onto those rails.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoThat's not a new idea, it's in a book already: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848027-new-moon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848027-new-moon
- labster 4y agoHow would a lunar railway handle thermal expansion? We’re back to the same problem that the nighttime lunar surface is mighty cold, and I’d expect big gaps to form
- burnished 4y agoI have no idea how plausibly, but the book 2312 has a city on one of the hot inner planets that gets squeezed along a rail using thermal expansion. Even if that doesnt work, it seems like the sort of thing you could engineer around, just a more extreme version of the engineering we already do to handle thermal expansion.
- akira2501 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light