Search results

*However, that's a tube in it's natural state. Any activity will start to rapidly increase the temperature inside. @Mike Delaney is rig ...l be free of regolith dust. The stuff gets everywhere. And it's awful. Any construction inside a tube will have to find ways to deal with it.

...uch less than from Earth to space. This could allow the Moon to serve as a construction site for spacecraft. Fuel for spacecraft could be launched by mass driver ...e Moon has low geological activity along with the lack of widespread human activity results in a remarkable lack of mechanical disturbance, making possible hig

If you tour any construction site or factory on Earth you will see a number of basic industrial mechanis ...across a polished metal rod as in hydraulic pistons. Look around an Earth construction site and you will see these pistons everywhere. These shafts move in and o

...We should consider the history of space enterprise so far. All economic activity in space has been done by robotic or automatic equipment, because people wo ...nauts to live in a primitive habitation and designing people into the base construction process is like designing people into the space shuttle transportation syst

* In industrial activity, [[Sandworms]] and other regolith processors * During construction

*[[Construction activity]] -- falling cranes, bulldozers crushing workers

The climate of the Earth is changing due to human activity - the science on this issue has been extensively reviewed by the [[Intergov ...se and already producing unprecedented weather patterns. The primary human activity responsible is the burning of fossil fuels for energy; if alternative energ

The first buildings on the Moon will be small construction sacks prefabricated on Earth. These will be sitting on the surface with re All buildings built in the mining and settlement periods are of mole hill construction. Calculations of some of the factors in this design are given in the sprea

...human efforts and expenditures for the Apollo Program would rank with the construction of the Panama Canal, the Manhattan Project were comparable. The Apollo was The next morning, activity was wide spread at MSFC. Meetings and conferences were taking place. Ever

...long. Nuclear power or no nuclear power there would be much construction activity before a 48.3 kilometer (30 mile) long tube to collect the exhaust of a roc ...e moon. Such development in careful stages could in time include economic activity of people on the moon. Today's astronauts are in no way heroes. They get

...mbia and then the very careful and conservative return to service, the ISS construction program is now close to 7 years behind schedule and still slipping. Add to Thus, all the delays and the operating costs of the shuttle made the construction a disaster. If it were for one simple launch on a Saturn INT-21, the ISS co

...cuses that developing industry on the moon would require actual industrial activity that should be left strictly to private corporations and that industrializi ...years makes the construction of industrial infrastructure and particularly construction of an LRSTO ([[Lunar Rocket-sled to Orbit]]) very difficult for private ind