Re: cheap lunar gear & base (spin-off of superhero flight)

Crown-Horned Snorkack wrote:
> On 15 apr, 00:23, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Maybe not, but you'll be exposing a lot of moonrock to an oxygen
>> atmosphere for the first time ever
> 
> Only outside. The regolith is ****ous so it will not hold air. It will,
> however, sup****t a plastic airproof sheet.The only air in contact with
> regolith is the air which has leaked out and is not coming back.

Moonrock will get inside in the form of dust. According to Apollo 
astronauts Moon dust smelled like spent gunpowder, and since it abraded 
the seals on the containers that were supposed to bring pristine samples 
back to Earth for study we don't actually know _why_ it smelled that way 
yet; the stuff we got back was exposed to air and had lost its odor by 
the time it landed.