Wings or flaps on figure skater take air to work. That is why designing a wing is called aerodynamics. No air on the moon. Not even birds will be able to fly, but they'll sure be good at hopping.
Also, I assume your moon ice skating involves ice. That much frozen water would be extremely expensive, and the ice would quickly sublimate (go directly from a solid to a gas).
BTW, I thought Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball a mile on the moon was a pretty impressive moon sports moment.
Also cost to moon vs cost-to-orbit multiplier should be closer to 20x.
Anyway, I think your overall idea is fun. I'm running a contract under NASA's InSpace manufacturing arm. We usually think about benefits for in-space manufacturing in terms of how to use microgravity to improve crystal growth or how to use a "wake-shield" to achieve ultra-high vacuum for molecular beam epitaxy. But finding an economically viable application is tough.
Wings or flaps on figure skater take air to work. That is why designing a wing is called aerodynamics. No air on the moon. Not even birds will be able to fly, but they'll sure be good at hopping.
Also, I assume your moon ice skating involves ice. That much frozen water would be extremely expensive, and the ice would quickly sublimate (go directly from a solid to a gas).
BTW, I thought Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball a mile on the moon was a pretty impressive moon sports moment.
Dome is pressurized. Apologies for not saying so explicitly.
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Can’t believe I forgot to call out that it was pressurized
They probably made the mistake because your first AI-generated image had a bunch of people wearing EVA suits inside the dome.
I had a surprisingly hard time getting it to make the lady not be in the spacesuit. Rereading it I do seem curt here. Not my intent.
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Dude, that interaction is gonna be my favorite thing of the day.
I also used axion instead of axiom
Oh yeh I thought this was an analogy for the nervous system and neurons
Just autocorrect fucking me yet again
So...43.3 sq ft per triangle * 25,000 triangles gives 1,082,500 sq ft, but your dome is only 192,000 sq ft?
Argh. This is what I get for using gpt and not staring hard enough. I will amend.
Also cost to moon vs cost-to-orbit multiplier should be closer to 20x.
Anyway, I think your overall idea is fun. I'm running a contract under NASA's InSpace manufacturing arm. We usually think about benefits for in-space manufacturing in terms of how to use microgravity to improve crystal growth or how to use a "wake-shield" to achieve ultra-high vacuum for molecular beam epitaxy. But finding an economically viable application is tough.
Maybe entertainment is more profitable.
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