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NASA to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
- lemonberry 1y agoI don't know enough about any aspect of this to make an intelligent comment, but commenting in hopes that those that do will.
- PaulHoule 1y agoFor this to work they need to have some way to land large objects on the moon, for one thing. Right now that doesn't exist. One reason you might want one for a human settlement is that the "day" on the moon is a whole month so, in most places, you have no sunlight for 14 days so you would need at least two weeks of storage to get through the night on solar energy.
- endmin 1y agoJust go to the other side ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- darth_avocado 1y agoMaybe carry extra blankets for the night. /s Wouldn’t having a closed loop system of hydrogen and oxygen as fuel be a more efficient way to store energy? Especially at the poles where there’s always illumination and hydrogen is abundant.
- gnabgib 1y agoH1/title: Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
- anigbrowl 1y agoI don't think the original headline is helpful here. While it's aimed at Politico's readership, 'Duffy' isn't a household name to most people. I would have gone with 'NASA administrator' or so.
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- FrankWilhoit 1y agoThe future of "space exploration" is a few more rockets blow up on the pad, followed by total abandonment of the whole idea.
- metalman 1y agomight work out perfectly starship will land 220000 lbs on the moon as a human landing craft, and will likely do twise that as a one way freighter, more if the main booster is expended as well... put it in a convienient crater, especialy good if it went into one permanently blocking sun light no shielding needed run it as hot as the materials will bear likely lots of optimisations that would be impossible on earth and whenever it needs fuel, the used stuff can be just pushed to the side throw in some solar , batteries the question is are they going big enough to start up a smelter to produce building materials on site?
- mintycrisp 1y agoAnnounced by Sean Duffy, current interim administrator of NASA (the highest ranking official at the agency) who's main credentials are being a former Real World / Road Rules participant and Fox News host with a degree in Marketing. I would like to say this is inspiring, because if this dude could become head of NASA then anyone could including me. But holy hell that is low key terrifying. - 'The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” ' So it seems less of a plan for further space exploration and more in line with a territorial grab. If it's land they want to 'own' then I've got good news for them, I am selling prime Luna real estate at a discount(low hundred millions) they can buy and even get a fancy notarized paper certificate too!
- mooiedingen 1y agoIf that is what ur up to Muricah, i say congratulations for the effort to start but as you do not seem to be aware of the fact this already been achieved. I would worry if i can trust the level of informedness at this level, But who "decided to pull all services back from the east.." now u guys flying into what you don't know what you cannot imaging the keks this is giving" Yours.truly
- burnt-resistor 1y agoI would be less surprised and less concerned if Duffy announced: Whalers on the Moon https://youtu.be/U8V2U7vTys0 https://youtu.be/U8V2U7vTys0
- InMice 1y agoThe first steps so we can turn our moon into a smartmoon
- unnamed76ri 1y agoGiven how most government projects run, I expect this project to be a decade late and about 10x whatever they estimate the cost to be today.