HiggsBoson

4 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by HiggsBoson 19y ago

   Okay, good point. I'm stepping outside my area of expertise, but here's my intuition: Radiative cooling and thermal isolation seem to be fairly well understood. They can also (unlike many, many other parts of the problem) be tested on Earth
2. 2.▲
   by HiggsBoson 19y ago

   > The heat differential from night to day is the hardest engineering part. Well, aside from getting a significant payload into orbit. ... and getting it to the moon ... and landing it ... and moving around ... and navigating the regulat
3. 3.▲
   by HiggsBoson 19y ago

   > a) Most likely nobody will be able to claim the prize. I'm pretty sure that Armadillo could do it if they decided to. They've spent about $3M to date on their development, but they're attacking a very different problem of (eventually)