From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcdaniel
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: Reactors on the moon - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.718
Posted: Thu Sep 16 21:28:05 1982
Received: Fri Sep 17 03:06:29 1982

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uiucdcs!mcdaniel    Sep 16 21:09:00 1982


However, Luna is a *B*I*G* rock! There is plenty of room for just
about anything you'd like to do. Furthermore, unlike the earth,
one spot is just about as good as any other (no weather, river,
air pressure, etc. worries -- just land roughness, and that can
be solved with a grader or by going down to one of the "seas".)
Luna's radius is Order(3000 km) (plus or minus 75%!), and
tha surface area of a sphere is 4*pi*r*r (I think), so
the lunar surface has an area of 4*3*3e3*3e3 = 1e8 or so
square kilometers of more or less usable area (give or take a factor
of 100). Plenty of room.