Re: Terraforming the Moon

From: Morituri-|-Max (newage_at_sendarico.net)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:51:47 GMT

habshi wrote:
> Sure the moon moves but its orbit is very predictable so our
> transmitters would always be
> able to point to the transmitter on the moon , which would amplify
> and beam back the signals at us.Can you imagine the volume of traffic
> ? Could make all the geo-sats redundant

Oh yeah, let me see... we have satellites circling the earth so that we have
complete coverage on any point on the surface of the earth... but WAIT!
let's get rid of all those satellites for a set of satellites around the
moon which only cover half the earth at any given time! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Whoa! Amazement!

Are you really as stupid as you read?

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