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| European Space Agency reveals ambitious plans to build a sat-nav and telecommunications network around the MOON in move that could transform our lunar satellite into the 'eighth continent' |
| 2021-05-21 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 Musk is doing some interesting things in Australia with big-ass battery farms. Completed is a 100 megawatt unit to save South Australia from its disasterous flirtation with 'renewable power'. Next up is a 300 megawatt big boy. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-05-21 22:30 |
| #4 Batteries still have a long way to go, I’m told, though they are improved over what they were. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-05-21 21:19 |
| #3 Musk is also developing batteries and autonomous vehicles, two technologies that would be quite handy on Mars. There just might be method to his madness. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-05-21 21:09 |
| #2 What do you think Starlink is practice for? Do you think Musk's Mars colony will depend on a single relay satellite that's shared with a bunch of 'bots? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-05-21 20:11 |
| #1 Ooooh! Ooooh! Can we call it Galileo Figero? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-05-21 14:50 |