they're going to blow up the moon
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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I'm announcing a nuclear reactor in my pants.
yea sure fuck it why not
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TO POWER WHAT? WE DON'T HAVE A FUCKING MOONBASE
to be fair ideally you want the power source up there before the moonbase goes up
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It's like you've never heard of extension cords
Space elevator, but it's just a bunch of orange extension cords daisy-chained together up to the moon.
That would make the moon wrap around the earth and then we'd be stuck. Imagine it being March 12th or whatever for eternity
Source: I played tetherball in 4th grade so imagine this probably works the same
As long as we sync it up with christmas everyone will be happy, duh. You guys just keep trying to find problems with this obviously perfect plan.
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TRUMP MOON-POWER CRYPTO - $100K MINIMUM BUY IN
Burgerland is generously going to power the Sino-Russian moonbase
That information has yet to be declassified, along with the bear problem it has.
To be fair, I think this is more than Mayo Pete ever did when he had this job
Idiot doesn't know these jobs are gifts and you're supposed to just sit and smile 
America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon!
btw, isn't a large volume of water, like, extremely important for nuclear reactors?
You can actually do without it, but it will be much more complex and several times more expensive.
Yeah I don't know how else to use nuclear radiation to make power except by heating water into steam. I know nasa has played with tiny reactors for spacecraft, but I don't know how they work. Perhaps they have something like a solar panel sitting next to a uranium rod and it generates electricity from that instead of photons?
They take advantage of the Seebeck effect which is where a voltage is generated between two points in a conducting material when there's a temperature difference between them. Basically the nuclear material heats one piece of metal in the circuit, while another remains cold, and this produces a potential difference between the two that drives current through the circuit. Because space is very cold and nuclear materials are very hot, this produces a useful quantity of current. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
So they're going to have to scale this method way the fuck up to get to 100kw.
yes, while space is cold, the vacuum means that nearly all the heat has to be shed by radiation (meaning e.g. infrared radiation, not nookyular radiation) rather than conduction & convection. so the more you scale it up, the bigger the heat sinks needed. think giant metal fins to radiate away the heat. eventually it becomes prohibitive.
interestingly, the 40KW NASA pilot project this proposal appears to be derived from is a Stirling engine, not a radioisotope thermal generator like on New Horizons, Cassini, etc.
a Stirling design converts much more of the heat to electricity than an RTG, but it has moving parts.
yeah it'd be very unfeasible
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Watch this shit is to power ai
Copying China's homework from May, except China actually has the capability to do it.
Mr president, we cannot allow a lunar gap!
The lunar gap already definitively exists. China is up there bringing home samples, making a communication infrastructure to reach the far side, and about to do ISRU tests next.
Coal for earth, nuclear for moon (supposedly) .
Look at it sparkle though, that's some Clean Coal™ right there!
Let me guess, this whole operation will be "managed" by AI.
good luck getting it there on one of Musk's dogcrap starships lol
ok here is my prediction. A fun little hyperstitional prophecy. I think whenever Amerikkka inevitably crumbles in the future some of the last fascists will really try to make an American government-in-exile on the moon like all those joke sci-fi Nazi stories/conspiracies.
I'm going to go with them putting a nuclear reactor on the moon but it leaks, creating radiation showers. Part of our weather forecasts is dedicated to these radiation showers and they're something we simply have to deal with forever because nobody ever goes back up there to fix it.
fortunately that's not possible so we're good. even if there was somehow enough radiation leaking from the moon to be noticeable here, it couldnt make the journey out of Luna's gravity well.
the chinese would, except the remnant of the US threatens them with all their nukes if they do
Step away from the lathe
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isn't there a video game where you shoot up a nazi base on the moon. wait is that Doom?
one of the wolfenstein games
Well while were just saying were gonna do things I'm planning on terraforming Venus sometime next year. Anyone who wants to help hmu. Shouldnt take too long.
Human-breathable air floats like helium on Venus’s surface. If you want to put people on Venus quickly, the most Earth-like environment in the Sol system floats like 55km above the surface so could get people in a sky city with less trouble than terraforming.
I dont wanna live in a blimp tho.
Bit idea: Elon manages to use all the DOGE cuts to get approval to do this and then nukes Texas when his ship blows up on the launchpad
This is just cover for putting nukes on the moon, right?
"Just curious, are we invading Iran today?"
I don’t care who is doing it. Sending people to the moon again feels so unnecessary when you got robots.
They're gonna send a nuke to the moon and detonate it and say that's a nuclear reactor
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