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The NASA actual announcement is at https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-partners-with-american-companies-on-key-moon-exploration-tech https://www.nasa.gov/pr

The NASA actual announcement is at https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-partners-with-american-companies-on-key-moon-exploration-tech https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-partners-with-americ... I notice that the projects all seem to be hardware focussed (construction, power, etc). There don't seem to be any that look at the biological requirements of 'living off the land'

hulitu 3y ago
> There don't seem to be any that look at the biological requirements of 'living off the land' They want to send robots instead of humans. The AI is there with ChatGPT so they only need some HW to run the LLM. /s
fnordpiglet 3y ago
Oxygen and water are discussed, as well as infrastructure for earth imports. That’s probably the basic framework, and the terrariums come later.
coffeebeanHH 3y ago
Glad they didn't put more money into Starshit
- Shawnj2 3y ago
  Don’t worry, under the current NASA plan NASA can’t land people on the moon until both Starship and Starship HLS are ready
  - coffeebeanHH 3y ago
    That means NASA won't ever land a human on the moon again. I wouldn't bet my money into scam like that. THere are way more sane options to bet on. And on the plus side Starshit won't probably get human rated anyway. Would you hop on a bomb knowing that you're just part of an idiots interpretation of rapid development and also knowing you're doomed and with 100% certainty going to die in any case of failure? No thanks! Not enough that they're going to destroy the whole wildlife at boca chica and not feel any need to clean up their mess. Honestly I wish them to be grounded at starbase until they handpicked and cleaned every single piece of dust they produced in the area.
Shawnj2 3y ago
I mean all of these projects have hilariously low budgets lol The biggest budget on this list is $37 million, that’s a decent amount of money but you can’t launch a human habitat to the moon for that price.
- hanniabu 3y ago
  It's likely just for technology development and someone else will launch it

hulitu 3y ago

> There don't seem to be any that look at the biological requirements of 'living off the land' They want to send robots instead of humans. The AI is there with ChatGPT so they only need some HW to run the LLM. /s

fnordpiglet 3y ago

Oxygen and water are discussed, as well as infrastructure for earth imports. That’s probably the basic framework, and the terrariums come later.

coffeebeanHH 3y ago

Glad they didn't put more money into Starshit

Shawnj2 3y ago
Don’t worry, under the current NASA plan NASA can’t land people on the moon until both Starship and Starship HLS are ready
- coffeebeanHH 3y ago
  That means NASA won't ever land a human on the moon again. I wouldn't bet my money into scam like that. THere are way more sane options to bet on. And on the plus side Starshit won't probably get human rated anyway. Would you hop on a bomb knowing that you're just part of an idiots interpretation of rapid development and also knowing you're doomed and with 100% certainty going to die in any case of failure? No thanks! Not enough that they're going to destroy the whole wildlife at boca chica and not feel any need to clean up their mess. Honestly I wish them to be grounded at starbase until they handpicked and cleaned every single piece of dust they produced in the area.

Shawnj2 3y ago

I mean all of these projects have hilariously low budgets lol The biggest budget on this list is $37 million, that’s a decent amount of money but you can’t launch a human habitat to the moon for that price.

hanniabu 3y ago
It's likely just for technology development and someone else will launch it