… I think a $250,000 space ship trip is probably safer.
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I’ll say a little prayer for those on board.
I just hope that they don’t spend their last few hours in the dark knowing that it’s only a matter of time.
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I’m pretty sure there’s a gauge on the panel with “Percent Air Remaining”. I just saw a US Navy captain on TV saying they have 2 days at most, and the equipment to save them is more than a 1,000 mile sail. At 20 knots, that’s 50 hours.
The arithmetic doesn’t look promising. This may be another case of “more money than brains”.
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Hope they bought travel insurance.
I just finished reading A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke.
Sea of Thirst (located within the Sinus Roris) filled with an extremely fine dust, a fine powder far drier than the contents of a terrestrial desert and which almost flows like water, instead of the common regolith which covers most of the lunar surface. A specially designed “boat” named the Selene skims over the surface of the dust in the same manner as a jetski.
But on one cruise, a moonquake causes a cavern to collapse, upsetting the equilibrium. As the dust-cruiser Selene passes over, it sinks about 15 metres below the surface of the dust, hiding the vessel from view, and trapping it beneath the dust. Immediately there are potentially fatal problems for the crew and passengers inside. The sunken Selene has a limited air supply, there is no way for heat generated to escape, communications are impossible, and no one else is sure where Selene has been lost…
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Regolith: A layer of loose, unconsolidated rock and dust that covers solid rock.
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That plot line was worn out decades ago.
I hate to admit I wasted two hours of life watching this thing.
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Indeed. Clarke wrote the novel over 60 years ago. It is mostly a working out of the technical problems that would arise in such an unusual environment.
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Didn’t know there was already a thread on this. I started one on MeTAR a couple minutes ago. Some surprising details:
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