A Science Vision report about living on the Moon - how it can be do

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# 21544 byNiclas Jacobsz on April 4, 2007, 5:55 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

Whatever the in your view low quality of my views about settlements
on the Moon, your reaction doesn't show much quality either - you
only shout at me. If you would have any substantional arguments
against my views, please come again. If not, YOU go away and I stay!

>
> > Many visionaries have designed and are still designing Moon bases
and
> > space stations around Earth, but, as is usual in many such
> > presentations,
> > ignore the basics of physics, engineering and specific conditions,
> > often in ignorance, or with a wishful "no problem" attitude. Since
> > the Apollo moon
> > landings, we know quite a bit more about the conditions of the
> > Moon's surface, but the artist-designers do not take these into
> > account and are still in
> > the science fiction phase, or rather, fiction only.
>
> I don't see that at all. Have you read "The Lunar Base Handbook" by
> Peter Eckhart, for example? This has not only the basics but the
> details of the physics, engineering, and specific conditions,
including
> data from Apollo and later missions, all taken into account in the
> specific plans. And that's just the first example I happened to
spot
> on my shelf; I'm sure there are others.
>
> > As the engineer in electrics, mechanics and energy conversion
> > systems that I am... You can
> > download the first chapter FOR FREE here:
> > http://www.draaisma.net/space-tourism/moon_base_landing.php
>
> Sounds to me like you're just trying to make a quick buck.
>
> If you really are sincere, then you should not start by disparaging
all
> the distinguished engineers and scientists that have come before
you,
> and stop trying to puff yourself up as well. If tearing down others
> feels necessary, then it's probably because your work can't stand up
> fro itself.
>
> Downloading your first sample chapter, I see that this is exactly
the
> case. On the very first page, you claim that walking on the Moon is
> impossible!
>
> Oh dear... slightly further, you write: "actually, I personally
suspect
> that studio-videos were shown as the 'real thing', because the
latter
> wasn't much to show " a miscalculation on Moon conditions.
Therefore
> also no moon expeditions later on " ye can't move around there..."
>
> So you're just another loony Moon-conspiracy nutjob. Please go
away.