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Today we're taking a break from fiction and delving into some serious science.

~ Gigantic caverns on the Moon might be filled with insect-like Selenites with terrible colds, thanks to Professor Cavor.

~ Moonbases can be built with 3D printers which use materials right there on the Moon. How cool is that!

~ A brave man is willing to risk his life just to prove that all those foolish people who think Columbus proved the world is round . . . are wrong. It's flatter than Olive Oyl's chest!
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Gigantic Lava Tube Could Be Home for Moon Colonists

This Gigantic Lava Tube Could Be Home for Moon Colonists

By Laura Geggel, Live Science





The hollow is so huge it could swallow up a big city like Philadelphia.

A city-size lava tube has been discovered on the moon, and researchers say it could serve as a shelter for lunar astronauts.

This lava tube could protect lunar-living astronauts from hazardous conditions on the moon's surface, the researchers said. Such a tube could even harbor a lunar colony, they added.

"It's important to know where and how big lunar lava tubes are if we're ever going to construct a lunar base," study co-researcher Junichi Haruyama, a senior researcher at JAXA, Japan's space agency, said in a statement. [How to Get to the Moon in 5 'Small' Steps]

Humans first landed on the moon more than 48 years ago, but no one has managed to stay there for longer than three days. That's because the moon is a perilous place. It has widely ranging temperatures, and unlike Earth, the moon does not have an atmosphere or magnetic field to protect life on its surface from harsh sun rays and radiation.

Earth also has lava tubes, but they're not nearly as large as the one discovered on the moon. If the scientists' gravity analyses are correct, the lava tube near Marius Hills could easily house a large U.S. city such as Philadelphia, they said.




~ Read more at the site.
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Moon bases will show us how to live off-planet

Moon bases being planned now may show us how to live off-planet

By Edd Gent





Setting up a future lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster+Partners joined ESA to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil.

Moon bases have long been a staple of science fiction, but a renewed push for lunar exploration suggests they’re on the brink of becoming science fact. Half a century after the last Apollo astronauts left the moon, President Trump has ordered NASA to plan a return. Other spacefaring nations are planning lunar missions of their own, as are a handful of start-ups.

Experts say the moon’s low gravity and proximity to Earth, along with its natural resources, make it a perfect staging post for missions to Mars and other deep-space destinations as well as a new frontier for humans to settle.

“The surface of the moon is the size of Africa,” says Prof. Bernard Foing, a scientist at the European Space Agency and leader of the agency’s “Moon Village” lunar base concept. “So you could really have a fully developed eighth continent playing a number of roles like a manufacturing hub, a great tourist destination, or a space port hub.”

Eventually, the moon will likely have permanent settlements — perhaps underground cities inside the recently discovered lava tubes that could protect settlers from space radiation. But plenty of lunar activity is planned for the coming decade.

~ Read more at the site.
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Flat-Earther Blasts off in Homemade Rocket!

He's sillier than you think, Steve. Read the article. The bozo's plan was to fly to 1,875 feet, because he wants to eventually take a photo that shows that the Earth is flat.

Seriously . . .

Bear in mind that commercial airliners fly around 30,000 feet, so Captain Moron only went about 1/15th of that distance. But he eventually wants to fly to 68 miles (~ 120,000 feet) to take a photo to prove the Earth is flat.

He's in for a rude awakening, because one can see Earth's curvature starting at an altitude of about 6.6 miles, or 35,000 feet!

And why does he and his Lunatic Club think the Earth is flat? Because the scientific theories are wrong, all the photo's of the Earth from space are fake, and all the governments want to hide the truth!

These certifiably insane idiots have witless theories to explain how the sun is over China when it's nighttime in our hemisphere . . . and all the other obvious facts which prove they're as crazier than Napoleon's twin brother who directs traffic in the middle of Death Valley.

But I still can't figure out how somebody with less intelligence than an inbred Alabama hillbilly who married his own sister could possibly build a "self-made, steam-powered rocket" that took him up to 1,875 feet!

Yes, steam powered! Hell, that was the reaction mass in the Destination Moon rocket!





Which brings up an interesting question; does Captain James T. Quirk think the Moon is flat, too!



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)