Fly to the moon - Page 1
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author: CosPhi
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2015, 03:56:57 pm
content: HelloI heard once about Google X Prizehttp://lunar.xprize.org/and forgot about it again.Then I saw thisvideo. Two guy from a Germany based team "Part Time Scientists"http://ptscientists.com/tell about there project. I'm really impressed about there work so far.They talked about it on the 31. Chaos Communication Congress (Chaos Computer Club). Some may interested also in some other videos from other talks.On the video they also say, they have some free space on there rover for an experiment from somebody else. So if somebody is interested to make something ... try .... do it

author: bbogita
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2015, 04:10:37 pm
content: Seems cool enough! Now what to put on the rover... perhaps just a huge sensor bank? Maybe a mini rocket that could go into LEO and act as an OSCAR? I didn't check the links so I don't know how much room they have, but an OSCAR would be cool.

author: CosPhi
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2015, 04:25:35 pm
content: They said no explosives, better no plants/liquids because they don't wanna contaminate the moon with organic things from earth.So no fireworks and no "my pee was first pee on the moons surface" O0And it's really worth to watch the video

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2015, 04:36:48 pm
content: Quote from: CosPhi on January 03, 2015, 04:25:35 pmApollo 11 has that sewn up already. the used nappies and such were left behind to reduce mass on the ascent stage. They wanted to bring back rocks, not bags of poop. If you get there you can even pick up some nice Hasselblad cameras left behind.

author: bbogita
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2015, 05:20:59 pm
content: Quote from: CosPhi on January 03, 2015, 04:25:35 pmAww.. no explosives. What am i going to do with all my spare C4 now?Do you think solid rocket fuel counts as an explosive if its just burning? Perhaps you could send a small solar powered mining rover to just dig and see what it finds. It could be small and could come back to the surface to recharge its batteries. It would take a while, but I think that would be cool to send along.

author: CosPhi
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2015, 06:14:20 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on January 03, 2015, 04:36:48 pmYes but the poop is still inside the nappies and not really on the surfaceIf you like you can do something with organic material, but you have to care it does not contaminate the surfaceA brave guy would build an "capture the flag" bot

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2015, 07:44:43 pm
content: By now the plastic bags would have disintegrated, spreading the dust of the dried stuff all over the descent stage storage lockers. Heat and temperature cycling would by now have spread it all over the bottom of the lockers, and likely it is on the surface as well from cracks from 40 years of thermal stress and the launch.

author: 3roomlab
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2015, 08:16:04 pm
content: i like the way they said it ...after getting milestone prizes and cumulative rewards ... sending the rocket up will make them poor again ($20m a pop?)O.O ... NASA mDISC DVD ... store data for more than 1000years ?