[HN Gopher] Project Horizon - Technical Considerations and Plans...
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       Project Horizon - Technical Considerations and Plans (1959) [pdf]
        
       Author : based2
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-08-29 13:13 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | 0x456 wrote:
       | Here is the Wikipedia Article about this topic:
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       | Project Horizon was a 1959 study to determine the feasibility of
       | constructing a scientific / military base on the Moon
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon
        
         | gravypod wrote:
         | I love the details and ideas they were bouncing around:
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         | > At present there seems to be no very urgent reason to depart
         | from using nitrogen as the diluent for oxygen. Any mechanical
         | advantages that may be considered for helium would be offset by
         | its greater ease of diffusion and hence leakage, and by the
         | high demands upon available supplies.
        
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