/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12791119
do PROOOOOONT fags really? It looks like shit. It's supposed to be barely noticeable at all. Like fuck, that RMS roughness has gotta be millimeters! Look at pic related, you can barely even notice the layers!
>>12791171
>>Not at the poles
yes, even at the poles. Water ice only exists in significant quantities in permanently shadowed regions(PSR). It's hard to power stuff in PSRs cause they're dark. We also don't know what form the ice is in which may make it difficult to extract. We cannot design mining equipment until we know what form it is in. Whether it's deep underground or just a thin layer of frost require very different mining equipment. Plus it's more valuable as rocket propellant than use in structures.
>>Because that does nothing to help develop the technology.
if the tech requires shipping up a bunch of mass from earth or pissing away valuable resources why develop it at all?
>>Wrong watch the Q&A video from swampworks
just watch the fucking video is that all you can say? And like there are a bunch of fucking videos here, which fucking one, and at which fucking time? Citations motherfucker, haven't you ever heard of them? I'm calling bullshit though. The Moon has FUCK ALL carbon, so how the fuck are you making hydrocarbon polymers!
>>3D printing has been tested in low g, has been tested in a vacuum
DIFFERENT PROCESSES THAN THOSE USED TO PRINT CONCRETE, YOU FUCKING RETARD!
>>on automation of both the printer
if that was true, maybe you could send me some publications on it? ntrs.nasa.gov find it faggot. Just moving dirt around ain't easy either faggot:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20050198938
>>Its happening
they've funded development of a concept. That concept may not necessarily work out.
>> develop a moonbase that they will attempt to make
no. they are not developing a moon base, they are investigating a concept. NASA hasn't put down money