Site for Moon Base Determined

Deinhard writes "Going hand-in-hand with the recent discussion on Moon Bases, Space.com is reporting that the perfect spot for a moon base has been found. According to the article, 'the best spot to settle on the Moon may be on the northern rim of Peary crater, close to the north pole.' What makes the location so important is that it is permanently lit, with a balmy -58 Fahrenheit (-50 C)."

Hello Slashdot reader, I am Ignignot & this is

[Anonymous Coward]

We are Mooninites from the inner core of the Moon. Our race is hundreds of years behind yours. Some would say that the Earth is our moon, but that would belittle the name of our moon, which is The Moon.

For one thing, the Moon has one third less gravity than your Earth. I don't know if you can understand that, but our vertical leap is beyond all measurement.

On the Moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with Moonrocks.

Re:Hello Slashdot reader, I am Ignignot & this

[TripMaster Monkey]

Fine, I'll build my own moon base! With blackjack...and hookers...in fact, forget the base!

Now all they have to do...

[Shadow Wrought]

is make sure that no one owns that parcel;-)

And now...

[Tuxedo Jack]

They can build the Alan Parsons Project.

Re:Hello Slashdot reader, I am Ignignot & this

[Anonymous Coward]

So I suppose you'd be a good person to ask who wrote "The Moon Rulez" on my car with a key.

Too bad...

[polyp2000]

I own that bit of the moon, i have a certificate [lunarregistry.com] to prove it.

-50c?!

[Anonymous Coward]

"But Keptin, this is the Garden spot of Ceti Alpha 6"

Always???

[Fnagaton]

"What makes the location so important is that it is permanently lit"

Even during a lunar eclipse? ;)

Re:Expected

[SmokeHalo]

"Anonymous Cowards only, please...step right this way for the physical."

Re:And now...

[Scrameustache]

They can build the Alan Parsons Project.

I thought that was some kind of hovercraft...

Re:Too bad...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well in that case, you'd better get up there before anyone else and protect your claim!

Penguins are awesome.

[Anonymous Coward]

-50 isn't so bad. Almost tolerable. To penguins or something. Maybe we could make a penguin farm on the moon.

Re:Too bad...

[blogeasy]

It looks like the standard price for land on the moon is $18.95/acre. Maybe they could buy you out.

watch out for water ice!

[Zapraki]

in the permanently shadowed depths of craters around the lunar north pole, water ice may lurk...

Wow, I didn't realize that the moon was going to be so dangerous, what with water ice lurking in the inky blackness and all.

Kinda reminds me of playing Xcom2: Terror from the Deep...

Lava monsters?

[Anonymous Coward]

What about the lava monsters?

You know, the monsters that inhabit the lava caves? How do you deal with them?

Obligatory Google

[CyberSlugGump]

Google lunar job [google.com]

Hmm

[Joe the Lesser]

It's important to me that my moon base have all 4 seasons.

Will I get that there?

Re:Interesting..

[AviLazar]

Eminent domain.

Besides, we all know that the moon and us getting there was a hollywood trick done in some studio. We have never been to the moon, in fact it is not real...well that is what the gov't will tell those people with that certificate anyhow.

Owen

[pete-classic]

Well, he'd better have those units in the Northern Rim repaired by midday, or there'll be hell to pay.

Re:Expected

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there some sort of fat virgin shortage on the moon?

Re:Penguins are awesome.

[Creepy]

send Minnesotans - when I was a kid, I had a neighbor that sat outside on a lawn chair every morning reading the morning paper, even in 30 below weather (I can only presume his wife kept his pad too hot for him, but you never know). If you're thinking he was bundled up, you'd be wrong - he sat out there in boxers and an undershirt.

Build him a little habitrail and biodome and he'd be set.

Re:Too bad...

[Oktober Sunset]

No they probably just send him to Guantanamo. Much easier.

Re:watch out for water ice!

[Snarfangel]

Wow, I didn't realize that the moon was going to be so dangerous, what with water ice lurking in the inky blackness and all.

It is pitch black. You are likely to be drowned by Water.
>light lantern
That does nothing. It appears the lantern's batteries are dead.
>scream for help
In space, no one can hear you scream.

Duh

[dfn5]

Here on earth, when we say that the temperature is so many degrees, we are talking about the air temperature. Since there is no atmosphere on the moon, how are those temperature readings to be interpreted?

Obviously it is the temperature of the vacuum.

Re:Finance: Money for Moon Base Unknown

[Anonymous Coward]

He forgot Poland!

Re:Moon Bases in Oregon

[natoochtoniket]

Great idea. Oregon would be an ideal place to build a moon base. Not only could we use the lava tubes for potection against solar radiation, but the logistics would be much simpler and cheaper. Putting everything on rockets and sending it a quarter million (or so) miles to the moon would be really difficult and expensive. It would so much easier to just have it delivered to Oregon in the first place. UPS and Fedex even go there, already.

Re:Hello Slashdot reader, I am Ignignot & this

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Let's build it after science discovers the anti-dollar. You know, that amount that you have, exactly inverse to the debt held as foreign reserves.

Morons.

Re:Hello Slashdot reader, I am Ignignot & this

[Brett Buck]

You and your 3 dimensions, how cute. We have 5, uh, 5000 dimensions. Don't question it!

Re:Dammit, skip the moon, go to Mars...

[Bohnanza]

Once established, the Moon Base will py for itself countless times over.

Thank you for the insight, President Bush.

Nitpicking

[benhocking]

What you're thinking is that when there is an eclipse, it's visible everywhere on earth, I think. Solar eclipses are only visible in certain places.

Lunar eclipses are visble everywhere on Earth that one could see (eclipsed portion of) the Moon. I.e., from approximately (actually a bit more than) half the Earth.

Similarly, Solar eclipses are visible everywhere on the Moon that one could see the eclipsed portion of the Earth (again, about half the Moon). :)

Of course, those living on the Moon might refer to Lunar eclipses as Solar eclipses and Solar eclipses as Terran eclipses.

beg to differ

[circusboy]

I think you'll find it's made of cheese.
I have it on good authority... [wallaceandgromit.com]

Re:Dammit, skip the moon, go to Mars...

[Capt'n Hector]

Iraq is just a big desert

Yes, just a big desert, chock full of raw materials we need our war against Iran, and with only 1/6 the popularity and no insurgents, it's easy to get those materials into the market. "Skipping" Iraq is just wack (pardon the pun). Once established, the Iraq war will pay for itself countless times over. --

Re:Finance: Money for Moon Base Unknown

[terrymr]

Something D O O ecconomics, anyone ... anyone .... VOO DOO ecconomics.

Re:No problem

[CrazyTalk]

I dont know dude - you may have grown up in Alaska, but ever sit through a 3 hour Buffalo Bills game in January?

I am Gnotigna, Royal Daughter of Ignignot

[LPetrazickis]

Hello, beloved earthlings.

We have been observing your earthworld with moonminds vast and merry for many moonyears. You earthtechnological earthachievements are moonimpressive to our moonminds.

Unfortunately, we mooninites are fighting a civil moonwar. Moonsibling is killing moonsibling. As Moonheir to the Moonthrone, I am trusted with protecting the ample Moontreasury.

Fellow sapients, the Moon needs your earthhelp. I need to transfer the equivalent of $50,000 USD to two thousand and one Earth banking accounts. In order to do so, my moonsubterfuge moonskills will have to deceive the earthbankers.

I plead with you on my moonknees.

Please let me transfer $50,000 USD to your earthaccount. The moonmoney will have to stay earthhidden for at least pi earthdecades. I trust you will earthsafeguard it from the moonpretenders to the Moonthrone.

We will moonreward all earthhumans moongenerously.

In order for me to transfer $50,000 to you, I need an initial earthmoney fund to earthbribe the earthbankers. Please send me $500 now, and I will moonreimburse you in the transfer.

The Moon cries out for your earthhelp as the moonpretenders moonrape, moonravage, and moonraze their way to my moonpalace. Please take my $50,000.

Re:Always???

[h4rm0ny]

Tell you what, build the base on the other side of the moon and send Goths. Lots of Goths.

Gothsss in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

Re:Conservation of Energy on Earth

[What me a Coward]

Ok just what have you been smoking? And why didn't you share with the rest of the group?

Re:Finance: Money for Moon Base Unknown

[lgw]

Have we no jails? Have we no workhouses? What have my tax dollars been going to?!

AYBAB2U

[Anonymous Coward]

AllYorBaseAreBelongtoUs

Good location

[Fillymon]

you sure wouldn't want to stick it where the sun don't shine.

Re:Too bad...

[jonadab]

> Ultimately it doesn't matter who owns it until there's some feasable way
> to get there.

Getting there isn't too hard. Okay, so it's not an afternoon jaunt, but it's
been done a handful of times, and that was without modern technology. The
hard part is figuring out how to derive substantial benefit from staying
there long term. Nobody's solved that one yet. Visiting the moon is an
interesting endeavor, but after a short stay, everybody seems to want to
come back to Earth. I guess it's not a tangible thing, just some kind of
nebulous psychological thing or something. People keep saying Earth has
"better atmosphere", whatever that means.

Re:No problem

[sharkey]

Perhaps you should try wearing something with better insulation than red/blue body paint and an official Bills' G-String.

Re:Dammit, skip the moon, go to Mars...

[Eradicator2k3]

The website you cite is obviously in error. Any small child could tell you that the moon is made of cheese. Therefore, it is a strategic location for astronauts to stop and indulge in a little fondue before continuing on to Mars.