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Living off the land: Listen up folks! The lunar day is roughly 29 1/2 Earth days, the length of a lunar month, and the time of which includes a full day-night c
by redeux 3y ago
Living off the land: Listen up folks! The lunar day is roughly 29 1/2 Earth days, the length of a lunar month, and the time of which includes a full day-night cycle. During that time the temperatures can vary from 120° C in the day to -130° C. So consider dressing in layers for a more comfortable moon experience.
- hulitu 3y ago> During that time the temperatures can vary from 120° C in the day to -130° C. The perfect environment for a heatpump.
- api 3y agoLunar settlements would probably be underground or "hobbit homes" piled over with regolith. Nobody's sunbathing on the Moon.
- redeux 3y agoWell, not for long anyway!
- tjoff 3y agoYou just need to have a rolling house going at around 15 km/h to be somewhere in the transition sweetspot all the time!
- albert_e 3y agois that really the approx. speed needed to circumnavigate the Moon in 30 days? Or is this somewhere conveniently nearer the poles :)
- inglor_cz 3y agoThe Moon is about a quarter of the Earth in size (not in weight!), so its equator should be ~ 10 thousand km long. 30 days are ~ 720 hours. Yeah, 15 km/h should do it even on the lunar equator. Ofc the terrain isn't exactly flat, so even 15 km/h might translate into a very bumpy ride.
- swarnie 3y agoA very slow atomic train you say?
- BurningFrog 3y agoPack a beach umbrella.