In preparation for a permanent human colony on the Moon, DARPA has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to develop a lunar railway concept, as part of the 10-year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study.
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71 sats \ 0 replies \ @pj 25 Mar 2024
The other title, “Nothrop Grumman wins a pile of cash from DARPA in exchange for some cool renderings”.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 25 Mar 2024
“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 2024
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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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @halalmoney 25 Mar 2024
I thought this was a @thebitcoinbugle post….
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 25 Mar 2024
same!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17 25 Mar 2024
This has got to be some of the dumbest shit I've seen in awhile.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 25 Mar 2024
as if the US could get back there
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