21 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 25 Mar \ on: Northrop Grumman wins DARPA contract for a railway on the Moon Construction_and_Engineering
“Railways, whether tracked or using maglev systems, make considerable sense. Aside from their logistical value, they are a way of handling one of the Moon's major problems – dust. Lunar dust is extremely abrasive and corrosive”
Military industrial complex sometimes has its benefits right?
Wonder how much this is going to cost the American tax payer.
But overall this is very cool
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @BenAllenG 26 Mar
If they choose to go above ground the issue is maintenance, on earth track maintenance is a huge expense and now you have meteors and MASSIVE temperature swings. If you're going to spend a gazillion dollars I feel like tunnels are the only long term way forward so then it's just a gazillion x 2!
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