Saturday, June 10, 2023

"The idea here is to test the human transportation system"-David Kring


Starts at 6:40. Artemis 2 approaches. It will be a flyby. This is more prelude to Artemis 3, than 2. That will be the next landing. Much of this video is comparisons of scale. It's more of a mission teaser than anything, but it's a well informed teaser.

  • Slide at 11:50. Speaker highlights and implies more than he says. Because the lunar south pole is a crater basin, it is exploitable as an eternal cold-trap. 
  • 19:15. Previous slides are meant to impress us with topography, but this slide illustrates a point. This intersection of ridgelines, or some other, will decide the ratio of uphill walking to downhill for astronauts. So it's a downplayed big deal. This guy seems to downplay often, intending wit. Probably better teaching for in-person grad-students who are sick of your shit, rather than closed-caption.
  • 33:30. He keeps understating things but does a good job of teasing background potential. Lunar selfies will be amazebalz.
  • 47:45 The south pole will have rock much older than Apollo samples. Likely older-than-Earth-surface rock.
There is jagged pall among planetary scientists right now. Intense frustration of budgetary stuff. Looking to Artemis sooths it a little. These Artemis missions are vital, and time sensitive since they are supporting the private sector. No progress can come too soon.

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