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Scientists plan to melt moondust to make lunar roads. Astronauts may have to do more moon-driving than moon-walking during future missions.::If we want space missions to be successful, we need to build Moon roads. Scientists plan to use lasers and moondust - here's how.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Someone tell the c/FuckCars people, this'll really piss them off lol

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Shiiiiit. Moon trains anybody?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I’ll take the moon subway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

My first thought when reading the headline was how pissed is the fuckcars movement gonna be when they find your carbrains are building roads on the moon lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

As much as I'd love to bike on the moon, our rovers don't last more than a few hours at most when dealing with lunar regolith - it's highly abrasive and gets everywhere

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Cars are great, if there are few. Can't have everyone in one when you live densely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So Michael Jackson is outdated now. :-)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Those damn murder machines keep ruining all that perfectly good moon cheese. They should simply walk the 13 miles to the mission location instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lol, those people are worse than preachy vegans and Linux supremecists combined. They're one of the few communities I've blocked completely.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Talk to Cave Johnson about the dangers of ground up moon rocks…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Should the headline be “discovered” instead of “plan”? Plan makes it sound like this is in work despite discovering how to do that so recently.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Semantics are secondary to capturing attention with headlines. And it's still just a minor summary of the whole story.

To elaborate, some dudes discovered a way to melt moon rocks to make asphalt. More dudes plan to make moon roads with it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Here comes another Chinese earthquake: ebrbrbrbrbrbr

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Cruising in an old chrysler with Frank Sinatra on speakers. Fly me to the moon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I keep hearing about going to the moon building this and that but when was last time man set foot there? Just do it already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not much point sending people there without any real purpose. Much cheaper and safer to send probes to gather whatever scientific data we need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's one thing they seem to be forgetting.

How the fuck are they gonna send that many people to warrant the road-building? I mean, they could, but would definitely break their banks.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Honestly the number of people required to send is zero, because they're for vehicles and it isn't a strict requirement that they have humans in them.

As long as there is "stuff" that needs transporting, you'll want vehicles, and if you want vehicles you probably want roads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And what's going to protect the lens from the lunar dust?

They might need a diamond lens or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Just put the laser high enough above the ground, like in orbit, and nothing will ever reach the lens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I saw a report recently about a 3D printing company that plans to use moon dust for concrete to build lunar housing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton are tuning their instruments...