Elon Musk's Mega structures for the moon.

At the moment Elon Musk has taken a radical turn in his space projects, the Moon, which until recently, according to him, was a distraction of resources and a waste of time and he said it directly to the president of the United States and he said it directly to all those who were involved in the Artemis program, that the objective had to be focused on Mars and had to be left behind because the entire lunar space project that involved not only reaching the moon, but establishing a base on the moon, establishing an orbital base on the Moon, a space station but in orbit the Moon and keep that base permanently occupied.

It has taken a radical turn, now it turns out that Mars is not forgotten, but it remains for a slightly more distant future and that the interesting thing, according to him, is to focus on the moon. The curious thing is that the arguments he gives now are the same as those given by those who defended that the Moon had to be obtained first so that it could serve as a source of mineral resources to make fuel and as an industrial base to then make the leap to the rest of the solar system, including Mars.

What has changed then in Elon Musk's mentality for him to take this radical turn? because now it has a mega project that involves launching a million satellites into low Earth orbit and the only way to make it profitable is by building the satellites on the Moon in automated factories with the materials extracted from the Moon and launching them into space using a colossal magnetic catapult.

This announcement was made on Tuesday, February 10, during an internal meeting with xAI employees. Elon Musk presented in that meeting the idea of ​​building a lunar factory to produce artificial intelligence satellites and launch them into space using that colossal electromagnetic catapult. It is a technology that we currently have, we would not have to develop practically anything necessary to do all this, technologically speaking. Now the colossal levels this whole thing would require are communal.

Here we move on to the almost key question, who is going to pay for all this? It is a business, it is about creating an artificial intelligence network, taking artificial intelligence servers into space and providing that artificial intelligence as a service, charging for it, obviously whatever is appropriate and that would generate those economic resources to build all that. Keep in mind that as soon as something is profitable it can skyrocket in size exponentially, because one thing is scientific research that has very limited budgets.

Many researches do not have an immediate application and when I say immediate I am saying 5 or 10 years, it may take 50 years for a research to reach its economic peak, and the same can happen as soon as something in the space economy is profitable, for example, what is now proposed to create servers in Earth orbit to provide artificial intelligence, if that is profitable, you would be financing precisely those million satellites and all that base on the Moon and all that mining exploitation on the Moon and everything else, because it is a business that has been profitable.

It would be necessary and much more comfortable to be under the lunar caves or under that bunker, a lunar station converted into a bunker, where you will be better protected from radiation, better protected from micro-meteorites and you will have a little gravity, not like Earth's, but you will have a little gravity to live a little comfortable within the logic; The thing about glass stations is absurd, I suppose he put it in because of the ease of creating it with artificial intelligence.

It doesn't make any sense because on the moon, I remind you that on the moon micro-meteorites fall by the wayside, here on Earth when we see a shower of shooting stars it seems like a beautiful thing because we see them disintegrate in the upper atmosphere. They are particles the size of a grain of sand or the size of a coin, not much larger in general, and they disintegrate in the upper atmosphere, but on the Moon there is no atmosphere, so they all impact the ground and a micro-meteorite the size of a grain of sand hits with the force of a bullet and one a little larger would impact like a grenade, it would burst that glass, even if it were armored, it makes no sense.

And worse still, something else happens on the moon, a slightly larger asteroid or a meteorite slightly larger than the size of a soccer ball, for example, can create a small crater and launch the fragments into the void, into space there in the lunar environment, but the problem is that since there is no air and the gravity is also lower, those fragments that on Earth would in any case fly a few hundred meters or at most 1 or 2 km on the moon, no, on the moon they would be traveling until they hit something. mountain or some slope, therefore, lunar bases are normally planned to be built inside lunar craters, so that the walls of that crater can protect the base from impacts that occur in another part of the moon and that expel materials at high speed and that are spinning around there, which is something very dangerous.

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