on the Moon
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...we SERIOUSLY need to get off of this mudball. The best thing we could do for the earth (to use the mushy greenie environmentalist terminology) is to move all heavy industry off planet One of the problems with that idea is radiation. Space is full of it. If the sun were to have a mild case of indigestion , fart a bit, and a Carrington Event were to occur it would be seriously BAD news for any one in space.
However...buried a few tens (or hundreds) of meters below the surface of the moon...not so much. Just another day at the office. The moon is purty close. When I was driving a truck I drove the equivalent of about half the way to the moon every year. If such a thing were possible I'd have been able to get there in two years. That's not a crazy as it might seem. In the days of sail...in the age of the Yankee Clipper...voyages lasted for YEARS.
The article says
- If you were to take all of the water in the moon’s interior, it would create a one-yard-deep ocean covering the entire surface, geologist Francis McCubbin estimated at the time.
they base this upon vulcanism.
BUT WAIT...I didn't think that the moon was tectonically active How can there BE volcanoes?
Apparently the paragons of journalistic integrity (of both magazines) have no problem with that apparent contradiction.
Elon Musk wants to go to mars. I agree with his reasoning BUT...perhaps the moon would be a better place to start, since water has been discovered there. We've already proven that we can get there with no more computing power than found in a present day vacuum cleaner. It should be fairly easy with modern technology.
So that's an idea...take heavy industry...and stick it IN the moon...while doing that use the moon as a modern day St. Louis for our expansion into the rest of the solar system.