The Next Fifty Years On The Moon | Transterrestrial Musings

An interesting essay, but it has a few problems. First…

An interesting overview, but I am aware of no serious plans for Virgin Galactic to get tourists to orbit any time, let alone in the early 2020s. Only Blue Origin and SpaceX offer that potential right now. https://t.co/Sew1biT1z3
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) July 23, 2019

And they repeatedly use the phrase “lunar soil.” In fact we just update Evoloterra this weekend to fix this ourselves.

There is no such thing as lunar "soil." Soil has an ecosystem and fertilizer needed to grow things. At some point, we will make soil out of the regolith, but it's not there naturally.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) July 23, 2019

Finally, we have this comment, which seems gratuitous and almost a non sequitur in the context of this article:

"The planet is in the midst of a climate crisis the likes of which we have never seen…"

Oh, please. Such hyperbole.

Go tell it to the folks who had to live through effing glacial advances with neolithic technology. Or even those who ice skated on the Thames in the LIA. https://t.co/rw8vMJW4ze
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) July 23, 2019

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