SHANGHAI - China is considering building a nuclear plant on the Moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) that it is planning with Russia, a presentation by a senior official showed on Wednesday.
I mean, it’s unlikely to hit that spot. They get a crater forming impact every 5 - 10 years. But those big ones you see are like millions of years old. Supposedly there was an impact event in 1178 witnessed by some Monks, but they haven’t been able to tie out the crater to it as the one they suspected was later determined to likely be 4 Million years old.
Would you spend trillions of dollars building something that was “unlikely” to result in catastrophic failure? I would prolly want more confidence of its longevity before dumping generations of wealth to build a structure that will cost billions more even to repair minor maintenance to.
I mean, it’s unlikely to hit that spot. They get a crater forming impact every 5 - 10 years. But those big ones you see are like millions of years old. Supposedly there was an impact event in 1178 witnessed by some Monks, but they haven’t been able to tie out the crater to it as the one they suspected was later determined to likely be 4 Million years old.
Would you spend trillions of dollars building something that was “unlikely” to result in catastrophic failure? I would prolly want more confidence of its longevity before dumping generations of wealth to build a structure that will cost billions more even to repair minor maintenance to.