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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter finds lunar pits harbor comfortable temperatures
https://phys.org ^ | JULY 26, 2022 | by Bill Steigerwald, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Posted on 07/26/2022 11:02:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Doctor Congo

The hole is 100 meters deep and 28 meters across.
If you stand in the middle how much of the sky can you see? Probably best expressed in how many zodiac constellations that you could see... (on average)

Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor not an astrophysicist.


21 posted on 07/26/2022 11:38:57 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Red Badger

I always knew that going to the moon would be the pits.

I was firmly convinced, at 15 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, that I would be able, around 2020, to retire on a moon colony. That was a little like hearing about Columbus and knowing that there would be English settlements by 1550.

(FWIW, my original American ancestor came in 1636, and no he didn’t have any slaves, he was a bond servant himself, in spite of being of noble ancestry.)


22 posted on 07/26/2022 11:42:09 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Magnum44

Gamera is really neat, Gamera is turtle meat, we all love you GAAAAAAAA-MEEEEEEEEEH-RAAAAAAAAAAAH!


23 posted on 07/26/2022 11:43:32 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: HighSierra5

When I was a kid at 14 and they first landed on the moon, I figured we would have already had functioning lunar colonies by the 1990s. But nobody. The commies had to spend money on Socil/socialist projects that drained our ability to succeed in space exploration. Jerks!

A rat done bit my sister Nell with whitey on the moon
her face and arms began to swell and whitey is on the moon
I can’t pay no doctor bills but whitey is on the moon
ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still with whitey on the moon ya know?
the man just upped my rent last night cause whitey is on the moon
no hot water, no toilets, no lights but whitey is on the moon
I wonder why he’s uppin’ me? cause whitey is on the moon
well I was givin’ him 50 dollars a week and now whitey is on the moon

Taxes takin’ my check
the junkies make me a nervous wreck
the price of food is goin’ up and as if all that crap wasn’t enough
ol’ rat done bit my sister Nell with whitey on the moon
her face and arms began to swell with whitey on the moon
with all that money I made last year put whitey on the moon
how come I aint got no money here? Hmmm whitey on the moon
ya know I just about had my fill of whitey on the moon
I think I’ll send these bills air mail special to whitey on the moon

Don’t call me whitey nigga, Don’t call me nigga whitey

Help can’t even help now and whitey is on the moon
aid for my brothers and sisters how whitey is on the moon
guess well just sit by dyin’ with whitey on the moon
dogs have better luck at there tails tryin’ whitey is on the moon
fed up us people are and whitey is on the moon
the slogan poverty or bust later to whitey on the moon


24 posted on 07/26/2022 11:53:46 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: chajin

I just finished reading Dickens’ “A Child’s History of England”.

It covers from Roman times During Julius Caesar’s time up to Queen Victoria.

Every king and queen is covered.

Hardly any of them were very nice people and would have your head chopped off for any infraction they could conceive.

The nobles were always fighting each other for control of the throne. Once there they would dispatch their rivals with abandon.

Bloody Queen Mary, just before Elizabeth I, is one example. She had Lady Jane Grey and her husband executed.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey

Your ancestor came here under the reign of Charles I, and he’s lucky to have done so as a bonded servant, else he might have been executed as so many nobles were at that time.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England


25 posted on 07/26/2022 11:54:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: HighSierra5

Obama’s NASA chief says agency’s goal is Muslim outreach, forgets to mention space

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0714/NASA-chief-says-agency-s-goal-is-Muslim-outreach-forgets-to-mention-space


26 posted on 07/26/2022 11:58:01 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Red Badger

That is very compelling. Perfect locations for bases.


27 posted on 07/26/2022 12:00:33 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger
Moon's surface, which heat up to 260 F (about 127 C) during the day and cool to minus 280 F (about minus 173 C) at night.

I thought the moon dose not have day and night since there is only one dark side of the moon.

28 posted on 07/26/2022 12:03:08 PM PDT by usurper
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To: usurper

One side of the moon is always facing us.

When it’s FULL MOON it is lit.

When it’s NEW MOON it is dark and the other side is lit.

There is no ‘dark side of the Moon’ except for Pink Floyd fans........................


29 posted on 07/26/2022 12:07:01 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: usurper

30 posted on 07/26/2022 12:08:33 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
There is no ‘dark side of the Moon’ except for Pink Floyd fans........................

Matter of fact, it's all dark.

31 posted on 07/26/2022 12:10:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Got to keep the Loonies on the path........................


32 posted on 07/26/2022 12:21:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: marktwain

Temperature does not solve the radiation problems


33 posted on 07/26/2022 12:48:15 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: struggle

What stops the hard radiation from solar flares?


34 posted on 07/26/2022 12:49:27 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Born in 1950

Good temps are good but aren’t the goal, we’ve got nice temps here.

Well, for 6 years anyway...

Have you seen our planet it won’t be here long,
they are painting it.


35 posted on 07/26/2022 12:51:54 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Red Badger

“Humans evolved living in caves, and to caves we might return when we live on the Moon...”

Y’all can go ahead and devolve off on some dead ball of rock in the empty void, I’m fine right here.


36 posted on 07/26/2022 12:57:18 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: struggle

“you’ve got a liveable place as long as there’s food”

The moon’s a dead ball of rock with no atmosphere, no fertile soil and only a little bit of water frozen in patches here and there, so good luck with that food part.


37 posted on 07/26/2022 1:02:35 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: PIF; struggle
What stops the hard radiation from solar flares?

Rock and soil.

38 posted on 07/26/2022 1:04:24 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Doctor Congo

The earth is always visible or not on the moon. Remember the moon is tidally locked. It’s always in the same position in the sky.


39 posted on 07/26/2022 1:13:34 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: marktwain

Yes, but the question was addressed to the guy that posted his solution saying : “All you need to do is create a machine that drills down about 5m, detonates an explosive, and then sprays the inside of the resulting hole with an airproof plastic/compound.”


40 posted on 07/26/2022 1:20:39 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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