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Moondust Graffiti
Moondust Graffiti
The monkey face on mars shows just how dramatic a picture can be made with the long shadows of shallow relief. On the moon a relief rendering could be accomplished with something similar to a scaled up dot matrix printer on the underside of a rover. Lets say it could stamp out a square foot in ten seconds. That would be 3M square feet in a year (half that if only powered by solar) or a square mile in eight years. Memorials, epitaphs, epithets, advertisements, marriage proposals and birthday messages could be set in the fine grain surface of the earth's ancient companion. Multiple pictures, taken from a mast on the rover, documenting a "moonglyph" in different lighting and changing distances, could be used for mementos, business cards and screen savers. For $100 a square, this claim to immortality could bring in $300M a year to the provider of the service and the estimates for speed and area are very conservative. A more advanced version could carry darker basaltic soil to write on the lighter anorthisitic highlands. A commertial enterprize to jump start the exploitation of extraterrestrial resources, and find gold in the rising of the harvest moon. Stephen Kearney |
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Moondust Graffiti
Moondust Graffiti
The monkey face on mars shows just how dramatic a picture can be made with the long shadows of shallow relief. On the moon a relief rendering could be accomplished with something similar to a scaled up dot matrix printer on the underside of a rover. Lets say it could stamp out a square foot in ten seconds. That would be 3M square feet in a year (half that if only powered by solar) or a square mile in eight years. Memorials, epitaphs, epithets, advertisements, marriage proposals and birthday messages could be set in the fine grain surface of the earth's ancient companion. Multiple pictures, taken from a mast on the rover, documenting a "moonglyph" in different lighting and changing distances, could be used for mementos, business cards and screen savers. For $100 a square, this claim to immortality could bring in $300M a year to the provider of the service and the estimates for speed and area are very conservative. A more advanced version could carry darker basaltic soil to write on the lighter anorthisitic highlands. A commertial enterprize to jump start the exploitation of extraterrestrial resources, and find gold in the rising of the harvest moon. Samples of moon rock prepared as slides for microscopic examination were thirty microns thick. If a cm^2, that would be about 100 to the gram. Assuming 80% waste that would be two million slides per 100 kg of rocks. An additional 80kg plus diamond dust from the saw could be subdivided a billion times into still visible samples. Set in clear epoxy and micro photographed to establish authencity they might sell for $5 to $10 each, more than enough to pay for the small space program necessary for their collection. Stephen Kearney |
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Moondust Graffiti
Moondust Graffiti
The monkey face on mars shows just how dramatic a picture can be made with the long shadows of shallow relief. On the moon a relief rendering could be accomplished with something similar to a scaled up dot matrix printer on the underside of a rover. Lets say it could stamp out a square foot in ten seconds. That would be 3M square feet in a year (half that if only powered by solar) or a square mile in eight years. Memorials, epitaphs, epithets, advertisements, marriage proposals and birthday messages could be set in the fine grain surface of the earth's ancient companion. Multiple pictures, taken from a mast on the rover, documenting a "moonglyph" in different lighting and changing distances, could be used for mementos, business cards and screen savers. For $100 a square, this claim to immortality could bring in $300M a year to the provider of the service and the estimates for speed and area are very conservative. A more advanced version could carry darker basaltic soil to write on the lighter anorthisitic highlands. A commertial enterprize to jump start the exploitation of extraterrestrial resources, and find gold in the rising of the harvest moon. Samples of moon rock prepared as slides for microscopic examination were thirty microns thick. If a cm^2, that would be about 100 to the gram. Assuming 80% waste that would be two million slides per 100 kg of rocks. An additional 80kg plus diamond dust from the saw could be subdivided a billion times into still visible samples. Set in clear epoxy and micro photographed to establish authencity they might sell for $5 to $10 each, more than enough to pay for the small space program necessary for their collection. If we can put a man on the moon, how come we haven't put a rover? Stephen Kearney |
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