/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2293658
No, because there is no life besides us.

We are all alone, floating in this blue little planet, in the vast lifeless void that is the Universe.

Yes, hidden from the radio broadcasts.

It would be shadowed of Earth, every a few years it would also be shadows of Jupiter, the second largest radio emitter, and for a third of a twelve-year period, a Farside Observatory would be isolated from Earth, Jupiter and the Sun, the three largest radio emitters, so you would have an utterly clean view.

SETI would be more effective if there were any actively broadcasting alien races within range.

>>2293730
There are none.

>>2293690
Fermi paradox much?
>>2293696
Thank you sir. Is there anymore thoughts you can share to this gentle stoner?
Moon base thread in general
Fuck yeah moon base.

Would the craters make super awesome natural parabolas?

>>2293747

Well, to be honest... A Moon base would be cool as a powerhouse since the Moon is full of shit to turn into photovoltaics. And as a farside array, of course.

Other than that it's cratered wasteland: Water is too dispersed to be of any use, no radioactive materials, no Carbon, and a bunch of things that are useless since there is no Carbon or water to use them with.

ie: No civilization, unless you haul your own water, food, and construction materials, will take place on the Moon.

I think.

I'm more of a Mars man myself, with occasional space colonies and asteroid ones but mostly for the delicious Platinium and other Rare Earth Metals.

>>2293759
No hope for ice seams then?
What about the helium?
Surely a civilization could subsidise its growth using reactors burning fusile materiel?
[Also: It's easier to rescue Lunar colonists than it would be if there were a fuckhuge dust storm on Mars and both scenarios face the same challenges, eg: biospheres, self sustaining atmosphere, not to mention adaptation to .16G - Lunar (0.4G for Mars?)
>>2293730
>iwanttobelieve.jpeg

>>2293805

Well, there isn't much Helium on the Moon, it's much easier to get it from the zone of Energetic Neutral Atoms.

And think about the rescue: A rescue mission, to bring back a whole colony? Unless they have transatmospheric vehicles on the colony, I doubt anyone will sign the budget for that shit.

>>2293811
>Well, there isn't much Helium on the Moon

Bullshit. The crust is covered in Helium3.

>>2293816

>though still low in quantity (28 ppm of lunar regolith is helium-4 and from 0.01 ppm to 0.05 ppm is helium-3)

Enjoy dumping a hundred million tonnes of dust into a furnace to get a tonne of Helium 3.

>>2293816
We could assume you could automate a rover to automine and be GPS guided. Shit can be built like a fucking titan because..
lol 1/6th gravity = weight esa no promblemo.

>>2293811
Rail gun, m'friend.
As you said, Lunar is a powerhouse and that it certainly is.
Should the whole colony lose pressure (a major fucking problem)
they merely equip pressure suits and catapult themselves back to earth.
The escape pods? I'll let engineers fix that problem, but a rail gun in a vacuum?
Isn't that liek...the best place to have a railgun?
Aren't they liek....only limited by the amount of energy you can throw into it?
You see where I'm going here.
>economical advantage
Trade. Earth can ship water, Lunar can grow.
She has fuckloads of land, Earth has fuckloads of babies.

The Moon? Fuck that.

The only truly viable place is Venus, if and only if, it is properly treated.

>>2293878
Concentrated sulphuric acid will eat the hull of an aerostat habitat. The solar radiation it would receive would be far more intense while Venus does not have a magnetic field. A catastrophic loss in the mechanisms that keep the station afloat would send it plunging into a literal hell.

Nope, the humanoids based there would kick them off

>>2293894
Sagansmirk says it all.

Hey guys guess what light goes faster with 1/6th the gravity of earth.

>>2293938
Light travels slower in an atmosphere, jackass.
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