Is it wrong to ask—as the reporter did not, or at least didn’t put it in the article—what a nuclear reactor on the moon would be for? Other than to be first, which I suppose is reason enough.
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It’s important to try to catch up to the milestones established in the AppleTV series For All Mankind
aug 4, 2025, 9:45 pm • 32 0 • view
A moon base would need a power plant
aug 4, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe, even probably, the reason. But the article could throw a sentence or two about why that’s not just a standalone goal. Of course, that would require semi-responsible journalism, which is not what we do anymore.
aug 4, 2025, 11:31 pm • 2 0 • view
I have such mixed feelings. I was a teenager when the ISS was first built, and I remember being so excited and overjoyed that the USA and Russia were working together to explore space for the benefit of human understanding.
aug 5, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
I would love to see a moon base for its research and exploration possibilities... but I do NOT want to return to cold war attitudes where space exploration is used as a pissing contest between politicians 😑
aug 5, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
It’s all pissing contests now.
aug 5, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
i feel like maybe they thought this would speak for itself: The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” the directive states, a sign of the agency’s concern about a joint project China and Russia have launched.
aug 5, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
the purpose is Lunar Warfare
aug 5, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
You got to have power for a ballroom. How could they build a ballroom on the moon without a nuclear reactor? Might power a McDonalds too.
aug 4, 2025, 10:29 pm • 3 0 • view
MoonCoin mining. Duh.
aug 5, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
theres a single quote in there attributed to the 'directive' written by duffy that seems to imply whichever country builds a reactor first gets to essentially call dibs on use of the lunar surface in the future
aug 4, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Right. I definitely understand dibs. If a nuclear reactor is how you call dibs on the moon, then so be it. I think I indicated as much in my second sentence.
aug 4, 2025, 11:34 pm • 2 0 • view
In Chicago we just put a lawn chair in the shoveled out parking space.
aug 5, 2025, 7:55 am • 1 0 • view
Gotta get there before the Soviets beat us to it!
aug 4, 2025, 9:50 pm • 1 0 • view