Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "NASA's Plan to Build A Telescope on the Moon" video.

  1. ​ @RealEngineering  AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Aside form the mishap with 200 versus 2,000 there's a glaring issue with this proposal that makes this look like one of those "what if we tired this" projects where they started with a what if and then started brainstorming ideas without fact checking what they said. 1) YOU CAN'T USE Carbon fibre composites in Space because the radiation breaks down the resin matrices used. So unless they can come up with a new technology its a NO on that front. BUT THEN if they were putting it forward with a list of - here's the new technologies we'd need then I'd strongly recommend they keep funding it because such projects tend to produce things that other projects then use. 2) Robot construction on the moon is TO DATE a myth. 1st its never been done and 2nd nobody has yet worked out the maintenance issues. A couple of years ago I was sent the complete set of publications from a NASA conference on Lunar projects. It was about 200 pages and had all of 1-1/2 pages on maintenance with the claim it would all be done by robots. I have actually worked for most of the last 20 years in Australia's remote mining industry. I went there after meeting Apollo 17s Harrison Schmitt in 2002 and he directed me to look into Helium-3. yeah I know Helium-3 is and isn't a thing but what I got was a hell of a lot of experience in building and maintaining mine sites in remote harsh environments. I CAN STATE 100% that NASA has not go their heads around the maintenance issues. People forget they (in general) don't maintain their systems except for software. They launch them and they work until they don't. Do I think this is a project to keep funding? YES Do I think getting 200 instead of 2,000 is the end of the world? NO And YES I know your also an engineer. I remember your video on respirators which was arguably one of the BEST EVER technical information videos in the history of all media. It was timely, it was important considering all the clowns who were doing dumb stuff at the time and MOST IMPORTANTLY it was accurate. On behalf of the engineering profession KEEP DOING what you do and don't worry about the inconsequential mistakes - we all make them.
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