Jonathan McDowell

british astronomer

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If you have a small town of only 10,000 people… then you’ve got… 10,000 years’ worth of water, and that starts feeling like, okay, on a 10,000-year timescale, we can find another solution,
The limits to lunar society are power is really challenging and water is absolutely, limiting,
There's been so much talk and enthusiasm about a future in which the moon is a part of our civilization and abundantly populated, and science fiction shows with extensive cities on the moon and space traffic around it, and so we just wanted to, I guess, throw some cold water, literally, on some of that overoptimism,
Things are going to get a lot busier near the moon,
There’s no doubt in my mind” that the rocket “is now in teeny, little pieces scattered over the moon near Einstein Crater,
This impact will not be a problem,

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