Why can't we take a inflatable balloon tent to the moon and make a Self-sustaining ecosystems like the garden in a bottle in doing so we will have a "base" on the moon
I'm all in for a Moon base. But you'll need to establish a stage coach line first. A self sustaining environment would be extremely difficult to produce. I haven't heard of a functioning one except earth. Light would have to be supplied for for half the time for plant life.
Any Moon base would require reliable logistics. Supply runs. Communications. And personnel rotations. A Moon day limit. And recovery time back home.
A very large project. A continuing cost project. Is there anything there that can cover the cost?
Maybe a pet moon rock? Two week getaways? Ask marketing.
I would like to see some construction projects on the far side(or not see). For scopes and antennas.
Very large scopes and antennas. Add a quiet laser network for them
Yes for scopes and so on even for studies as they do on the international spaces station many even a lunch base to move out moreI'm all in for a Moon base. But you'll need to establish a stage coach line first. A self sustaining environment would be extremely difficult to produce. I haven't heard of a functioning one except earth. Light would have to be supplied for for half the time for plant life.
Any Moon base would require reliable logistics. Supply runs. Communications. And personnel rotations. A Moon day limit. And recovery time back home.
A very large project. A continuing cost project. Is there anything there that can cover the cost?
Maybe a pet moon rock? Two week getaways? Ask marketing.
I would like to see some construction projects on the far side(or not see). For scopes and antennas.
Very large scopes and antennas. Add a quiet laser network for them.
To equal Earth's atmospheric depth takes a five foot thick depth of simple dirt.An inflateable habitat on the Moon would not provide radiation shielding. On Earth, we have an atmosphere of low molecular weight gases that will stop incoming high energy particles. High molecular weight material must be much more massive than our atmospere. It would be very difficult to pile enough regolith on top of a balloon in order to provide the shielding. The best option on the Moon is to go underground.
But simple dirt is made of high Z atoms and will not shield. The high speed ionized atomic nuclei simply bounce off them without losing energy. As a result, about 2 to 3 times the amount is needed. The lower gravity on the Moon would help, but 12-15 feet of regolith is a problem. Much easier to set up shop in a lava tube,To equal Earth's atmospheric depth takes a five foot thick depth of simple dirt.
Bill, you are wrong according to a lot of mighty knowledgeable experts. A depth of Earth atmosphere from edge of space to sea-level matches to five foot depth of dirt. Space stations will construct armored emergency shelters just about equaling that, though more compact. Stanford Torus in-space colonies will have lighter rotating inner tubes (still with differing depths of material) and non-rotating outer tubes filled throughout their lengths with five feet plus depths of excess construction sludge materials from the Moon and captured asteroid and other meteor materials.But simple dirt is made of high Z atoms and will not shield. The high speed ionized atomic nuclei simply bounce off them without losing energy. As a result, about 2 to 3 times the amount is needed. The lower gravity on the Moon would help, but 12-15 feet of regolith is a problem. Much easier to set up shop in a lava tube,
Please, what is this? Science? Google didn't help me.I am not a astroleger but in my mind from school
perhaps something along the lines of a Faraday cage?With a little luck we might be getting some better shielding materials. And methods.
extra shielding would not be needed if the cage is properly grounded.Energetic particles can be deflected by magnetic fields. It is simply a matter of how strong we can make the fields and how we can arrange them to minimize our radiation dose. A bipolar field would have but two openings, one at each pole. We could put our conventional shielding there, not eliminating it but minimizing it.
But then we have the problem that the field has steered a vast amount of particles into the N and S pole, just like the aurora on Earth. We would need much thicker shielding. Maybe it would not work out.
define "gluing"The radiation particles are charged. If we slow them down, we can glue them. The process of gluing them generates current. A passive shield that generates juice as it's bombarded with particle radiation.
a Faraday cage is not a magnetic field.With a magnetic shield to deflect charged particles, there is no cage involved. The magnetic field is generated by a current. It could be a perpetual current in a superconductor thus would need no power source, once the initial current is set up.