{"id":9309,"date":"2010-01-03T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2010-01-03T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T15:31:28","slug":"exploring-the-moon-hole-to-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/exploring-the-moon-hole-to-live-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Moon hole… to Live In"},"content":{"rendered":"

The international team of scientists have discovered something:<\/p>\n

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\n…a protected lunar “lava tube” — a deep, giant hole — that might be well suited for a moon colony or a lunar base.<\/p>\n

The vertical hole, in the volcanic Marius Hills region on the moon’s near side, is 213 feet wide<\/a> and is estimated to be more than 260 feet deep, according to findings published <\/a>in Geophysical Research Letters<\/a>, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.<\/p>\n

More important, the scientists say, the hole is protected from the moon’s harsh temperatures and meteorite strikes by a thin sheet of lava. That makes the tube a good candidate for further exploration or possible inhabitation, …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It took, what, 50,000 years* for humans to crawl out of caves and build deluxe apartments in the sky? Now these world scientists are saying we have to crawl back in a hole to step off this rock and start the Trek\/Wars future we all long for?<\/p>\n

Scientists love irony.<\/p>\n

*We’re pretty sure that’s not the scientific number but you get the point.<\/p>\n

(via CNN<\/a> and someone’s tweet but we can’t recall whose.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The international team of scientists have discovered something: …a protected lunar “lava tube” — a deep, giant hole — that might be well suited for a moon colony or a lunar base. The vertical hole, in the volcanic Marius Hills region on the moon’s near side, is 213 feet wide and is estimated to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,77],"tags":[1553,1554,458,1087,208,147,983,475,1610],"class_list":["post-9309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-the-future","tag-colonize","tag-get-your-ass-to-the-moon","tag-hole","tag-live-for-science-die-for-science","tag-moon","tag-save-the-humans","tag-things-scientists-say-before-the-dolphins-mysteriously-disappear","tag-tweet-find","tag-wtf-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9312,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions\/9312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}