The space station on the Moon is a vital pathfinder for the Mars colonies.

 The space station on the Moon is a vital pathfinder for the Mars colonies. 

A moon station is a good place for testing the technical systems. And other models that are needed on Mars. Things like oxygen level, the food supply.  And especially the social models like what type of persons will send to Mars are also important things. If the oxygen level of the station or spacecraft is too high, that causes the risk of fire. 

And the thing on the Moon. Is that if in that station something goes wrong, the crew can return home quite soon. If something goes wrong on Red Planet coming back to Earth would take a far longer time than people expect. And the worst thing that can happen is that something will go wrong in social relationships. 

In the cases that there are social problems or conflicts between people on the Mars trip. That thing can risk the lives of the entire crew. So there are lots of things to do before the real Mars mission. Things like social problems are the things that are the most difficult things to solve. As I have written before. Human nature is one of the most important wild cards that can danger the mission. 

When the crew travels between Mars and Earth or astronauts wait for the launching window for returning. There are lots of things that can go wrong. And the thing is that if there happens something, the crew can just wait for the moment that the spacecraft can reach planet Earth. So on the Mars trip, there is no mission abort. 

Or the entire crew can set to long-term anesthesia. And the robots can handle the mission. So the control crew will order the system to involve nitrous oxide in the air of the station or craft. And then the robots would put the chemical that is needed for long-term anesthesia to the astronauts. And then the automatic systems can fly the crew back to Earth. 

Or somebody will get an injury where the neurosurgeon or other highly-trained specialists is needed. For that kind of situation, the researchers must make models of how to make things like surgical operations on Mars. The radio signal will travel between 5-20 minutes from the Earth to Red Planet. And that means there must be some other way to make the surgical operations on that planet. If some astronaut will get head injuries. 

There are made AI and virtual reality-based models. Where the robots will make the 3D holographic image of the patient's organs and body. The surgeon will make the virtual operation. And then that data will send to the robots that are making the surgeon. In the more fascinating models, the data that is needed for the neurological surgery will send straight to the brains of astronauts by using the induction loop. 

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My estimation of Arthur C. Clarke's book "Earthlight" (1955)

"Earthlight"
Arthur C. Clarke
(1955)

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

"Earthlight" is the novel, what Arthur C. Clarke wrote in 1955, and it is the very futuristic story about the war between the Earth and it's colonies. The book is full of technical things, like the train, what travels on the surface of the moon. This fictional moon train is a quite conventional electric train, what is modified as the space capsule, and it would travel to the station, and then the airlocks would be connected to that system, what allows people to travel on the surface of the Moon. The combat systems that are used in this book, are the probably triangle-shape spacecraft, what have thrust to every side of those vehicles, and that would make those ships, what fictional colony would be used capable to fly like some UFO.


Because the war between colonies, what are known as "Federals" is expected, the Moonbase must be defended, and the defense is the thing, what is prepared almost all of the book. The defense of that base bases the magnetic cannon, what would pump meted iron straight to those targeted spacecraft. The book is actually the story about preparing the war, and how the colonies spies would be searched from the Moonbase. In the last chapter, Clarke wrote that the peace treaty would be made under the control of the Moon, and in this case, I would tell that in the real life, would the Moon be acting in the control of Earth.


There would be many things, what the Moon needs from Earth, and one of them is clothes and the second thing, what Clarke forgot, is that the Moon would be targetted the nuclear weapons from the Earth, or there could be powerful, but an unseen radiological weapon, what could destroy entire Moon in seconds. That fictional weapon could be an actually radiological weapon, and it can be actually misused radio telescope. The thing could be tested in some weapon tests, where are trying to create the protective shield, by using electric arcs.


Those radio telescopes would be synchronized in the same frequency, and then their radiation would be targeted to the heart or center point of the Moon, and this means, that the Moon would be destroyed immediately when the Earth wants. The warming of the center of the Moon with extremely powerful electric arcs could cause the expansion of the nucleus of the Moon, and that would crash entire planet. This is the thing, what this master of science fiction might be thought, when he wrote that novel, that feels so timeless even today.