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lunar regolith, you know the soil of the moon, is the
moon's most predictable and abundant resource. it's other
primary resource useful for harvest is,wait for it..... solar
energy.
i've been reading about moon colonization for so many
years.
my conclusion is the first attempts at preparing
the moon
for any useful puspose will be accomplished through
remote controlled and autonomous sets of robots that we
deliver to the moon.
what will those robots do, use lunar soil and use solar
power.
solar power is being developed on earth. arguably, early
solar paneling on the moon will be based on earth
manufacturing and shipped to the moon. but maybe not.
my suggestion is that the major area of engineering yet to
be built is how to use lunar soil to do any of the things we
will want robots to do on the first moon projects.
the crowdsourcing site allows people to post their
engineering project proposals, and the reward if enough
people subscribe to the proporsal, is they purchase the
amount of simulated lunar soil provided from a bevy of
existing providers on earth. simulated lunar soil isn't
cheap, and experimenting with it , is necesssary to
provide the first few 'killer applications' that robots on the
moon with deploy.
alot of peopel think it's a simple affair and that nasa and
others have already researched this. wrong.
#1 any reearch on conventional dwellings for human beings
is useless. humans won't be on the moon for decades after
the robots are on the moon. the robots don't need human
habitable dwellings.
#2 turning soil into roads. it is not necessarily the case
that roads or landing pads will be especially useful to the
future robots we send to the moon.
THERE ARE AND INFINITE amount of possibilities for the
next killer app for lunar soil. i think a crowdsourcing site
which fosters communication and comparison of ideas, as
well as rewarding the 'best' with funding is a great way of
finding out that killer app and bringing down the cost of
lunar simulated soil at the same time for those whod would
like to experiment.
the big complexity in this research is that the methods of
using the soil must also be conducted in near lunar
conditions. the problem is ---you cannot repilicate low G
for very long on earth, and you cannot replicate vaccum
conditions very cheaply. but people can try and that is the
challenge to figure out......
perhaps we will see simulated lunar soil experimention on
the ISS one day?
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One of the things actually tested with genuine lunar
soil, brought back by the Apollo missions, was to see
how well plants grew in it. After some microbial
preparation (because plants need more than just
minerals), the plants grew quite nicely. |
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so let's grow plants!. why'd someone ding me with a
fishbone. fishbones could actually contain the
microbes needed for enriching lunar soil. |
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a nice little experiment could determine this. maybe
we need more fishbones? |
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I like the idea but if you insist... [-] |
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// why'd someone ding me with a fishbone // |
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You're new here, so I'm guessing you haven't heard of the
mysterious and shadowy figure known as the autoboner.
Don't take it personally. |
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// a nice little experiment could determine this. maybe we
need more fishbones? // |
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No need to experiment, fish meal and bone meal are both
well-known fertilizers. I use them all the time to nudge the
nutrient balance in my plants. |
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The molecules that make up the lunar regolith aren't any different than the molecules that make up similar substances on Earth, ie: it's rock. The only difference, I imagine, is that under 1/6 gravity, compaction is different and, since there's no water, the grains are sharp-edged. These are mechanical differences, not biological: plants' growth is from the substances in the soil, not the soil. |
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[ ] It's not a bad idea, but you haven't bothered to find a proper category, which is necessary not only for people external to the site who are looking to read ideas, but for future posters who may want to see if their idea already exists. Oh yeah, and spellchecking. And apparently your capslock key is busted, not that I'm one to talk. |
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//so let's grow plants!. why'd someone ding me with
a fishbone.// |
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toO feW capitalS and mostlY iN thE wronG placeS. |
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Most halfbakers are anal retentive ex grammer teachers.
Finding the right category can be a real bitch.
Someone needs to post an idea about that |
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Like the idea, we need to get of this rock. |
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//Finding the right category can be a real bitch.// |
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noT reallY. itS' jusT a matteR oF makinG a biT oF aN
efforT. |
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