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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: US Intuitive Machines set for second moon landing in February Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:17:22 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <5qj2ojpnbb47hbcei0v2agik2bjusnak91@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:17:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ae9f3fa303c8fa8440668952d48e0014"; logging-data="503241"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19q/fZ1ABm2qepeI5GDn1V/d4jMiJ5m+QI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:7yczKBN01Po9C5uEMIYerD4+uzQ= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: <5qj2ojpnbb47hbcei0v2agik2bjusnak91@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250110-6, 11/1/2025), Outbound message Bytes: 2393 On 11/01/2025 3:58 am, john larkin wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:47:04 GMT, Jan Panteltje > wrote: > >> Intuitive Machines set for second landing, looking to build a lunar economy >> https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/intuitive-machines-set-for-second-landing-looking-to-build-a-lunar-economy/ > > A "lunar economy" sounds silly. There's nothing up there but dirt and > radiation. And a whole lot of helium-3. https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4001 > May as well plop your business in the middle of a desert, or > antartica, or on a barge offshorse. John Larkin doesn't know enough to realise that the business might be exploiting resources that might not be available anywhere else > I was once involved with some utopians who wanted to set up an ideal > society, New Island, on a barge in the Gulf of Mexico. Same idea. It > sounded dreadful so I declined. But at least the barge would have had > air and rain and a way to paddle home. John Larkin can understand the need for air and water. He less well-informed about more exotic resources, and incapable of learning what they might be. -- Bill Sloman, Sydnhey >