Malcolm Reynolds wrote:
Up my what, Brad? Buttcheeks again? Why are you so infatuated with people's nether regions?

and may Usama bin Laden find your family a good example target of what
a true infidel represents.

Why should I care what that smelly, hairy ape (or any of your other relatives) thinks of my family?

May something of incest eat you and your family from the inside out.

It's odd that you should say that, because that's exactly what the nanobacteria (which we engineered
specifically to target your individual DNA) is going to do to your brain.

Munch.

Munch.

Munch.

Since you folks and even our 100% snookered and summarily dumbfounded
"tomcat" are obviously not going to stop posting into this topic, in
which case I'll have to share and share alike by way of keeping my
battery of lose cannons, that are situated on my nifty poopdeck of
truth, as firing at will.

There's a damn good reason why the LSE-CM/ISS offers the one and only
way to fly, whereas besides the obvious need for physical protection,
it has to do with our frail DNA surviving any sort of home away from
home environment in spite of what our moon represents. There's not
much point in our having such a science and space-station depot in the
sky if your DNA can't take a licking and keep on ticking, as you can't
count on banked bone marrow or stem-cells saving each and every bad
day.

The surface of our moon is perhaps never going to be artificially
terraformed sufficiently into becoming suitable for us as naked humans
unless we biologically mutate into becoming a hybrid cloned species of
rad-hard DNA, whereas no amount of religious superiority, arrogance,
greed and bigotry is ever going to cut through or otherwise avoid the
reality of the truth. Even by earthshine is sufficiently lethal within
hours if not near instantly going TBI red-line if there's much of
anything cosmic or solar nasty going on. Even the bimonthly trail or
back/head pressure from Earth of what the solar wind has enstore, thats
extensively diverted around Earth because of our magnetosphere, isn't
exactly moderating the situation on behalf of the moon. In other
words, that moon environment would actually be better off as a small
planet if it were not for Earth.

I'm thinking it's technically possible to construct and reasonably
sustain a better lunar atmosphere that'll still remain as unacceptable
for us naked humans, but would otherwise greatly enhance our limited
DNA capability as to working within that new and improved environment
for days on end by wearing moonsuits and keeping ourselves as much as
possible within earthshine, or otherwise sufficiently underground.

And why may I ask, as to other than our going by the
infomercial-science via NASA/Apollo, do you folks insist upon thinking
the moon itself isn't a whole lot worse off than whatever the Van Allen
zone of death has to offer?

In place of using a given volume of water which is actually damn risky
business if doing such upon the moon, whereas utilizing solids of
slightly greater than 1 g/cm3 is becoming the norm, though even the use
of leaded polyethalene or various other UHMWPE substances isn't worth
squat up against the really hard-X-rays, as such even leaded
polyethalene represents a relatively low density shield that is nearly
transparent to gamma, though otherwise remains as unavoidably 100%
reactive. At least that's what the laws of physics and of hard-science
that's easily replicated proves is the case. Your basic "polyethalene"
substance is similar to the benefits of being surrounded by an equal
volume of water, except without all the containment and thermal dynamic
complications of what that water represents as being a non-structural
substance, potentially corrosive and essentially explosive within such
a near vacuum and otherwise hot environment, not to mention those
eventual leakage factors from micro impacts that are 100% unavoidable.

Supposed individuals that are actually a acting/reacting as a Usenet
collective that's very borg like in most every way, that are
steadfast/mindset in their naysay and otherwise opposition to each and
everything I'm having to say, are now into calling their Einstein god
and every other physics abiding soul a lunatic, and to think that most
of you don't even realize where the name "lunatic" originally came
from. How absolutely pathetic, and no wonder we had to perpetrate that
cold-war and sad that we're currently at war with the likes of Muslims
while building that 104 acre private city within a city of Iraq (isn't
Muslim oil precious, even if it's a little bloody?).

If you believe we've walked on the moon, in that case our naked moon
must have been protected by a very large and magical NASA/Apollo fart,
because without that protective surround of flatulence there's nothing
much other preventing the solar and cosmic influx from reacting as it
should have with the little amount of the local sodium and of a few
other heavy elements worth of atmosphere, thereby easily impacting into
the moon surface itself, as to be interacting and thereby creating
those extra secondary/recoil worth of nasty hard-X-rays. The moon
itself is as it should be very much the anti-cathode of what happens
naturally and unavoidably to such a naked orb as our moon.

From the physically dark and nasty deck of our moon, it simply is not
as such actually looking as though depicted by any of those phony and
otherwise bogus NASA/Apollo unfiltered Kodak moments, as that of a
guano island likeness of artificially modified terrain, of hosting such
few and eroded rocks as depicted within the foreground and otherwise
having those clean and soft rolling hills in the background, much less
likely of hosting an average 0.55 albedo that's also offering such a
thin clumping layer of what looks exactly like a 50/50 blend of
portland cement and cornmeal, along with those entirely empty cracks
within those close-up photographed big rocks that were making it look
as though their artificial dusting process hadn't quite accomplished
the intended task.

Our otherwise salty moon is unfortunately not actually that of a
relatively clean guano rock that's covered in such a thin passive
clumping layer of moon-dust that isn't the least bit electrostatic,
much less as having been so nicely xenon/artificial lamp spectrum
illuminated instead of by the raw solar spectrum. Whereas instead, it
should have been of a nearly coal like basalt hulk that's covered in a
physically dark and thick composite layer of solar and cosmic debris,
of carbon/soot plus all sorts of nifty minerals and rare elements
including countless spores that are most likely terminal because of
their having been exposed to getting double-IR roasted and summarily
TBI to death for at least many thousands of years since having lost
it's thick coating of salty ice, as ever since unavoidably having been
passing through the very same gauntlet of space as essentially naked
and thereby unavoidably receiving the fullest of influx and via gravity
holding onto the very same sorts of solar and cosmic energy and of
collecting radioactive substances as that of what our magnetosphere
accomplishes on behalf of representing our absolutely lethal Van Allen
belts, thereby making our moon worse off than any Van Allen zone
environment which itself can easily represent the average of 23 rads
per hour while shielded behind 2 g/cm2 (that's similar to 5/16" worth
of 5086 of aluminum), and that dosage can easily become 10 fold worse
off if it's having been one of those unusually bad solar/cosmic years,
with an individual event that can last for hours on end being worth a
greater dosage factor than our saturated instruments can manage to
record (we're talking several thousand rads/hr).

Of course our frail human DNA has certain limits as to how much of our
DNA can be damaged by such radiation at any one time without your body
going into auto-rejection mode, as it isn't based upon any such
stinking average annual dosage, but upon the right here and now of
whatever is being made available at the time and place of any given
space travel or of those supposed EVA associations with that of our
fully reactive and unavoidably radioactive moon, and if that's within
moonsuits offering less than half the shielding benefit is obviously
going to allow a greater dosage than any attenuation afforded by the 2
g/cm2 worth of aluminum. Of course, spacecrafts and moonsuits
themselves are going to unavoidably represent additional reactive
elements for the local, solar and cosmic gamma radiation to interact
with, that'll unavoidably create those secondary/recoil contributions
of the much nastier DNA killings via X-rays. Having a cash of your own
banked bone marrow doesn't represent a 100% insurance plan if for
example your eyes were damaged, and even at best the access to that
banked bone marrow and stem-cells could be as much as 5 days away
unless you've got an express form of returning yourself to Earth.

I guess that's why I've elected on behalf of my LSE-CM/ISS to having
the 50t/m2 or 5 kg/cm2 as the shield for the mostly basalt composite
hull of the 256e6 tonne CM/ISS, as representing my primary insurance
plan, especially since being continually situated in front of that
nasty moon and only 60,000 km away from what has been officially
recorded as representing the hottest local source of gamma and X-rays.
Unfortunately we still have nothing of any science platform situated
within LL-1, therefore hard-science numbers are difficult to impossible
to extract or even speculate since that nearby nullification zone has
been kept scientifically as taboo/nondisclosure as the moon itself.

Basically, we know a whole lot more about all of those Iraqi WMD and of
where Usama bin Laden is camping out than we do about LL-1.
-
Brad Guth