Europe and Russia mission to assess Moon settlement

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Europe and Russia mission to assess Moon settlement

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News

16 October 2015 Science & Environment

The European and Russian space agencies are to send a lander to an unexplored area at the Moon's south pole.

It will be one of a series of missions that prepares for the return of humans to the surface and a possible permanent settlement.

The spacecraft will assess whether there is water, and raw materials to make fuel and oxygen.

BBC News has obtained exclusive details of the mission, called Luna 27, which is set for launch in five years' time.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34504067

[Newest Reality]

1. Do they have any

idea of how to really mess the Moon up, yet? Or, will that just happen naturally, like here?

Not an easy task considering there is not much to do to it. Well, polluting it with garbage should be really easy. Maybe some radioactivity? How about repeated explosions, (Moon fracking?) to threaten its integrity? Oh, mining it mercilessly might help in the destruction.

Yeah, that's the ticket. We simply have to do something special to the Moon so it can match the Earth. Hey, its a free Moon.

[longship]

2. Or let's just "Bomb the Moon"

Read the gory details here, from DU.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6712126

Just as delusional as any other argument against building a settlement there.

Have fun at the link.

[BlueJazz]

3. I remember that one! Time flys.

[MisterP]

4. naughty bits+puke+.17 gee = ???!!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/drunken-antarctica-scientists-fighting-and-exposing-themselves-report-says-a6681676.html
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/scientists-antarctica-drink-lot-maybe-much/

it's gonna be geology, and maybe radio and interferometry telescopes if we can spare some resources from where all the--y'know--people are living

space isn't full of Plymouth Rocks or Louisiana Purchases or Zheng He or Conestoga wagons: it CHANGES people (who won't be too pleased laying mines around their bases)