Posted on 01/19/2008 9:20:21 PM PST by DogByte6RER
The Moon Survival Challenge
HOW TO PLAY
Imagine you are returning to the base ship on the sunlit side of the moon after carrying out a 72-hour exploration trip. Your small spacecraft has crash-landed about 200 miles from the base ship. You need to reach the base ship, in addition to your spacesuit, you were able to salvage the items listed below. Using what you know about the moon, rate each item in the above list according to how important it would be in getting you back to the base ship.
Drag the items below up and down to prioritize them in the list, from most important to least important.
MOST IMPORTANT (drag Items up and down to move)
4 packages of food concentrate
20m nylon rope
1 portable heating unit
1 magnetic compass
1 box of matches
1 first-aid kit
2 50-kg tanks of oxygen
20 L of water
1 star chart
1 case of dehydrated milk
1 solar-powered radio set
3 signal flares
1 large piece of insulating fabric
1 flashlight
2 45-caliber pistols, loaded
LEAST IMPORTANT
NOTE: Go to the link provided to take this self survey.
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I guess I am qualified to be an astro NOT!
I was under the assumption I was IN a space suit, and couldn’t eat or drink. That was how I based my answers. Only got a 40.
I was under the assumption that I was on the dark side of the moon. Oh, well!
I don't think that NASA's reasoning that the 2 fully load .45s would be useful as a possible means of propulsion. How? Carrying a .45 for propulsion might make some idiotic sense in weightless conditions but not on the Moon. The recoil simply is not enough to lift a man off the ground even on the Moon. This reasoning is absurd.
Several other choices are just as bad... leaving behind the flashlight and the heating units sounds reasonable... but there are SHADOWS that are extremely dark and cold. I did put the heating units low... but a bright flashlight might come in handy. I put the firearms dead last.
The First Aid Kit is a "gotcha"... only on the answer page do you find out that the First Aid Kit has needles that are designed to penetrate special access ports on the spacesuit. Otherwise, a First Aid Kit would be not useful as you could not access wounds without opening the spacesuit... which would result in a dead astronaut. Had they mentioned that little needle detail, I would have put it a bit higher on my priority list.
If you answer on the assumption that the radio is effective (not limited to line of sight - assumes orbiting or earth transceivers), and that it is impractical tom contemplate anything but a “hole up and wait to be rescued “ strategy, then their answers are really bad.
All that matters is O2, radio, shelter, and water, in that order. Maybe means to signal an approaching rescue craft. But I assume that if we have missions like this on the moon, any crash site will be well-known because of tracking telemetry, and even seismic sensors.
Undoubtedly, this is all made up, not official NASA, and just a website traffic builder.
Thanks to Dogbyte6rer for this quiz!
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I think I already took this in 1999.
I did much better on the “Zombie Apocalypse” quiz!
Hey, who wouldn’t? I mean, really, that’s really about November 2008, isn’t it?
There I am with a 30% and an F but everything is in the right order or only one or two away - no points for good rough prioritizing?
If you’re in a space suit, how are you going to eat the food or drink the water?
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