“Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies”

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    In fact, we might be able live there.

    “Lunar cave systems have been proposed as great places to site future crewed bases, as the thick cave ceiling of rock is ideal to protect people and infrastructure from the wildly varying day-night lunar surface temperature variations and to block high energy radiation which bathes the lunar surface,” said Katherine Joy, professor in earth sciences at the University of Manchester. “However, we currently know very little about the underground structures below these pit entrances.”

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    2 months ago

    No shit there are caves on the moon. Have these scientists never watched The Clangers?

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      You make it sound so bad. As if diving in a submarine is dangerous. I mean, we can go to the Titanic without issues, so we should be fine going to moon caves right?

      Right?.. 👀

      I don’t get what would be the benefit, really. Scientific research, sure. But do we need monkeys on sight? We can land robots and rovers. What can a monkey do what a robot can’t? Keeping anything alive in space, on the mokn or on Mars makes every operation so much more complex. It’s stupid and unnecessary. But it’s a dream of Musk, the world’s biggest scam artist. So why not spend billions of tax money on his stupid dream, making his company a shit to of money. But Trump is probably getting re-elected, so Musk isn’t the stupidest thing out there anymore.

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        “It’s a dream of Musk”

        Guess you were born recently, because this stuff predates Musk even being born.

        But you’re so blinded by Musk living in your head rent free, you don’t even bother to learn about the windmill at which you’re tilting.

        Luddites, using the very high tech they’re trying to destroy…oh the irony.

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          We’ve already been there. We did it. Done. We quit doing it a looooong time ago. Why are we trying to go back now?

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    one must commend Hergé’s research.

    to show moon caves in Explorers on the Moon sixteen years before the moon landing in an era without the internet is some freaky stuff.

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    We have come so far first roaming the land living in caves then agriculture and science.

    Then we went to the moon where we roamed the land and lived in caves…

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    Finally some good news. The discovery of the Prothean ruins will bring the entire world together.