• Yermaw@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Actually planning to live on the moon. Still didn’t get my hoverboard.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Do we have reactors that would work properly (or, my bigger worry, whose safety systems will work properly) in such a low-grav environment? I assume they don’t mean the type that use heat from decay like old probes

    • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Every safety system I can think of with nuclear power would work in low gravity environments as you don’t want to risk pieces of equipment getting stuck or going only 9.8 m/s so pressurized fluid, springs, and magnets are used. The concern I see is how you shed waste heat without an atmosphere

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    For fucking what? Lol

    Hey, let build an insanely expensive energy plant to build on earth that takes decades to construct and build it on the furthest land mass humans have ever traveled to. Oh and the land mass is like always exposed to direct sunlight, but fuck solar panels. Double oh oh AND the land mass has like zero protection from any fucking flying outerspace debris that could destroy it all.

    • vane@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Do they need to protect it from anything ? There is no atmosphere on the moon and cosmic radiation is already there.