Re: Improved lunar landing architecture

Pat Flannery wrote: 


Alex Terrell wrote:


You'd better hope you can get that 200 tons of water for the ice
radiation shield on-site, because moving it up from Earth ain't going to
be cheap.


That's why the polar base exists.



The question is: Does the polar ice exist?
That's still a very open question.

Pat

Pat 


Scientist:  we have found these indications of hydrogen. If these
are bonded with oxygen in water molecules, we would have X amount of
water. But, we don't have any in situ data. This hydrogen indication
could be a false reading like the data from Tycho or it could be
hydrated into minerals.

Newspaper: NASA discovers water.

Fanboy:  A lunar base is easy. They are stupid for not building it
now. We have everything we need...
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