New Lunar Base?

[Sidoh]

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotScience?m=888

As I told Ergot about this, we stumbed across a multitude of problems that these "moonwalkers" would be forced to face.  Of the most significance was without a doubt the meteors that would continually pound the base and its surrounding area.  Here is Ergot's proposed solution:



And addiontally, a discussion log involving our genius techniques:

(21:17:20) Chris: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotScience?m=888 did you see that?
(21:17:30) Ergot: no
(21:17:57) Ergot: Umm...
(21:18:00) Ergot: Oxygen ;\ ?
(21:18:05) Chris: It'd be airtight
(21:18:16) Ergot: How do you get oxygen ;\ ?
(21:18:17) Chris: like a space station, but they won't have to worry about orbit
(21:18:25) Ergot: Plants :\ ?
(21:18:28) Chris: You can convert CO2 to O2
(21:18:32) Ergot: NO WAY!?
(21:18:36) Chris: ...
(21:18:37) Chris: plants
(21:18:39) Chris: plankton
(21:18:40) Chris:
(21:18:43) Ergot: Water...
(21:18:48) Chris: Photosynthesis silly :p
(21:18:51) Ergot: Unless you're going to piss on them..
(21:19:02) Chris: They'll obviously have a supply chain, haha
(21:19:08) Chris: It's not like it's going to be stranded
(21:19:10) Ergot: You'd pretty much have to bring like a greenhouse or something...
(21:19:21) Chris: Another thing I think they're silly for not noting is meteors
(21:19:22) Ergot: Not too sure about the water though...
(21:19:33) Chris: They ship it from Earth.
(21:19:33) Ergot: hmm...
(21:19:40) Ergot: Anti-meteor gun
(21:19:42) Chris: Moon has no atmosphere. 
(21:19:43) Chris: Hahaha
(21:19:49) Chris: LASER PEW PEW PEW PEW
(21:19:54) Ergot: Yes please
(21:20:00) Chris: gg
(21:20:03) Chris: We're geniuses
(21:20:08) Chris: We should be hired by NASA k
(21:20:11) Ergot: lol yes
(21:20:11) Chris: p_o
(21:20:16) Ergot: Monocle power!
(21:20:20) Chris: YA SRSLY
(21:20:28) Chris: Lol, newby didn't like my testicle in a cup
(21:20:29) Ergot: I think... I need to draw a picture lol
(21:20:44) Ergot: OH
(21:20:48) Ergot: Have you seen my ogre ?
(21:20:51) Ergot: From long long ago ?
(21:20:54) Chris: haha, no
(21:21:08) Ergot: I thought I showed everyone ;\ ?
(21:21:16) Ergot: I started it on Paint and finished the grass on Photoshop
(21:21:42) Chris: http://sidoh.dark-wire.net/upload
(21:21:43) Ergot: wtfux
(21:21:50) Ergot: it might be there
(21:21:51) Ergot: loolo
(21:22:24) Chris: don't see it
(21:22:35) Ergot: It's not
(21:22:43) Chris: reupload kthx
(21:22:49) Ergot: http://sidoh.dark-wire.net/upload/index.php?a=view&id=72
(21:22:57) Ergot: http://sidoh.dark-wire.net/upload/files/2PIDDXFAFN-9891689bfa41c80f.jpg
(21:23:05) Chris: ROFL!!!
(21:23:14) Chris: lmfao haahahah
(21:23:30) Ergot: I know it's badass.
(21:23:38) Chris: Extremely
(21:23:51) Ergot: Ok time to draw our moon.

[Feanor]

I want to live on the moon. On funny thing that this reminded me of, is where they are going to go to the bathroom. Back in the day, toilettes on spaceships used to just flush the astronauts waste into space. Now all of their urine and defecation is orbiting the earth at fast speeds, which we have to keep track of so that it doesn’t collide with anything with launch.

Better get some good waste management on the moon.

[Sidoh]

I want to live on the moon. On funny thing that this reminded me of, is where they are going to go to the bathroom. Back in the day, toilettes on spaceships used to just flush the astronauts waste into space. Now all of their urine and defecation is orbiting the earth at fast speeds, which we have to keep track of so that it doesn’t collide with anything with launch.

Better get some good waste management on the moon.

I would pay to take a trip to space and get hit by Niel Armstrong's tird.

And to answer your question, they'd likely be stored in tankes and then shipped back to Earth.  Life on the moon would be enormously dependant on trips to and from Earth.

[Ergot]

Now with fecal matter removal contraption.

[Sidoh]

True genius. p_o

Hm, since no one side of the moon is exposed to the sun for long (been too long since Earth Science, correct me if I'm wrong), we need to invent an alternate light source.

[Warrior]

The auroa of eliteness that surrounds me, that or chuck norris.

[Sidoh]

The auroa of eliteness that surrounds me, that or chuck norris.

Perhaps both.  Maybe it is Chuck influencing our genius?!

[iago]

I want to live on the moon. On funny thing that this reminded me of, is where they are going to go to the bathroom. Back in the day, toilettes on spaceships used to just flush the astronauts waste into space. Now all of their urine and defecation is orbiting the earth at fast speeds, which we have to keep track of so that it doesn’t collide with anything with launch.

Better get some good waste management on the moon.

Wouldn't its orbit degrade and it would just burn up in atmosphere?

[Ergot]

If someone took a HUGE turd, it would be possible to make impact... and no one would like flaming shit on their head.

[Warrior]

Dude..constipated shit meteor !!!! Headlines on Mars: "Earth oblitherated by..you guessed it SHIT!!"

[Blaze]

Screw Lunar bases, I want this.  I could care less about Mars.

I see you took no notice to my displeasure of the testi-cup.

[igimo1]

It would be rough living on the moon - the lower gravfield slowly degrades your bone density, so you have to work out regularly and stay in good shape (no fat people, it seems).

[Sidoh]

Wouldn't its orbit degrade and it would just burn up in atmosphere?

I think it depends on how high it's orbiting.  It also depends on how fast it was traveling when it was "ejected."

Screw Lunar bases, I want this.  I could care less about Mars.

I see you took no notice to my displeasure of the testi-cup.

Huh?  I moved that to the trash bin. O_o

It would be rough living on the moon - the lower gravfield slowly degrades your bone density, so you have to work out regularly and stay in good shape (no fat people, it seems).

It's the fact that you don't constantly put the amount of force gravity on earth applies that disinigrates your bones; it isn't a direct affect of lower gravity.  Also, I think they'd have some sort of gravity generator.

[Blaze]

Screw Lunar bases, I want this.  I could care less about Mars.

I see you took no notice to my displeasure of the testi-cup.

Huh?  I moved that to the trash bin. O_o

You only said Newby didn't like it, no mention of me.  Do you not love me anymore?   

[Sidoh]

You only said Newby didn't like it, no mention of me.  Do you not love me anymore?   

No, Newby secretly loved it.  I'm sorry for any pain it caused you.

[Feanor]

Wouldnt that water tube make the Earth / Moon act as a single wierd object with a center of mass somewhere near the Earth, and the moon would no longer revolve around the Earth, but the Earth and moon would both just rotate around the center of mass!?!?!?!??!

[Ergot]

You'd think that wouldn't you, but the tube isn't draw to scale. It is also telescopic so it can adjust properly to distance when orbiting/rotating

[Feanor]

It would have to be a very elastic tube.

[Ergot]

It would have to be a very elastic tube.

Yes. It is.

[Sidoh]

We'ere geniuses.  We think of these things.

[igimo1]

Another major factor that should be considered is the amount of cosmological radiation the moon gets hit with every month.

[Feanor]

You are an idiot.

[iago]

If someone took a HUGE turd, it would be possible to make impact... and no one would like flaming shit on their head.

Even one the size of a person would burn up, so I don't think it's an issue. 

I think it depends on how high it's orbiting.  It also depends on how fast it was traveling when it was "ejected."

If they're smart (they ARE rocket scientists, so I assume they are), they'd shoot it backwards so that it didn't have enough speed to orbit. 

[iago]

Another major factor that should be considered is the amount of cosmological radiation the moon gets hit with every month.

Yeah, but there are easy ways to filter the radiation so that's not a huge issue. 

[MyndFyre]

It would have to be a very elastic tube.

It's about (roughly) the length of my penis, but with the flaccidity of Newby's.  That's all you should have to know to feel secure about it.

As it turns out, such a tube might be a good thing.  Since the sea level will be rising (supposedly due to global warming), we should send that extra water to the moon!

[Sidoh]

Another major factor that should be considered is the amount of cosmological radiation the moon gets hit with every month.

What iago said.  This is hardly an engineering problem.

If they're smart (they ARE rocket scientists, so I assume they are), they'd shoot it backwards so that it didn't have enough speed to orbit. 

I've heard there are tirds in orbit before too (though it could certainly be speculation or rumor from the source).  Smart people have done dumber things.

[MyndFyre]

I've heard there are tirds in orbit before too (though it could certainly be speculation or rumor from the source).  Smart people have done dumber things.

Do you mean "turds"?

[Sidoh]

Do you mean "turds"?

"Tirds" are turds that have been without oxygen for over a year.

.. >_>