Tanks? Seriously? If 3 feet of rain fell over 1,000 square miles, then you would need a tank 30 feet tall covering 100 square miles. Right.
Now returning to your regularly scheduled Lunar Science article...
“In May, NASA announced that it would invest funds in 10 mission concepts involving small satellites called cubesats.”
I don’t disagree that the tank thing would be worthless, but read between the lines on the above statement taken from the article. It says NASA would invest funds in the mission. It doesn’t say they are fully funding it. Who’s going to pick up the tab? The current price to do what they want to do, without the follow on work on the devices at the moon, is around $2 million dollars. And that’s just to get it off the ground.
Wanna bet they are expecting residual from Uncle Sugar? That equates to your and my tax money to take a closer look at something that makes no difference to us at all and have been around for billions of years and are causerd by the impact of pieces of asteroids and comets. Why do you climb a mountain? Because it’s there. And for no real reason at all. Except to spend money we don’t have.
rwood
Lol...my thoughts exactly.....how bout dealing with weather events and climates as they happen...can’t tax unusual weather events out of existence...