In some more enlightened timeline there's a spirited competition between institutional and amateur astronomers towards predicting these, and some amateur is sitting on a $10M this-person-told-us-so-and-we-bet-against-them prize, which gets bigger every year (no prizes for the institutional side, they get a salary).
In that timeline's future we're then competing over who can most reliably prevent them.
The winners of such frivolous competitions over protecting the moon get funding for the more serious job of protecting Earth.
I don't even get that far but get a blank page except for: "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker." They're doing a pretty good job of minimizing their traffic.
As with Mars (and Silo) we need a very deep pit to protect humans from the radiation.
> a whopping 728 feet across, more than twice the length of an American football field
For the rest of the world, this is ~222 meters, more than twice the length of a 100 meter track.
EDIT: Ninja'd! :-)
Archive: https://archive.ph/88rlJ
In some more enlightened timeline there's a spirited competition between institutional and amateur astronomers towards predicting these, and some amateur is sitting on a $10M this-person-told-us-so-and-we-bet-against-them prize, which gets bigger every year (no prizes for the institutional side, they get a salary).
In that timeline's future we're then competing over who can most reliably prevent them.
The winners of such frivolous competitions over protecting the moon get funding for the more serious job of protecting Earth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/science/space/what-a-mass...
Eh, still have to login.
I don't even get that far but get a blank page except for: "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker." They're doing a pretty good job of minimizing their traffic.
Bypass Paywalls Clean on Quetta works fine.
I can only get you so far...
No,
You could have gotten this link: https://archive.is/88rlJ
(which is currently also the top link)
> previously unseen lunar crater that’s a whopping 728 feet across, more than twice the length of an American football field.
For the rest of the world, it's about 222m.
> objects the size of monster truck tires
FFS, just use metric! Apparently that's about 1.7m.
NASA
free to view, you already paid for it
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-moon-orbite...
It means someone will ask 10x price for building the US lunar base.