[HN Gopher] For Sale: Moon Dust Collected by Neil Armstrong
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For Sale: Moon Dust Collected by Neil Armstrong
Author : rntn
Score : 41 points
Date : 2022-04-12 10:36 UTC (1 days ago)
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| nonrandomstring wrote:
| Lies! Lies! Everyone knows the Moon is made of _cheese_.
| randrews wrote:
| > NASA planetary mineralogist Roy Christoffersen used these six
| aluminum cylinders to test the lunar dust under an electron
| microscope to verify it was collected during the Apollo 11
| mission.
|
| Heh, weird to see the name of an old coworker in this context.
| midiguy wrote:
| Pays 1 million dollars for a couple grams of moon dust...
|
| 2 decades later Elon Musk starts mining the moon and moon dust
| becomes a commodity going for 10$ to the kilogram
| a9h74j wrote:
| Someone once told me that, at one point, the most valuable
| jewel in the King of England's crown was a flake of aluminum.
| onion2k wrote:
| Photography didn't make the Mona Lisa worthless.
| mattnewton wrote:
| Exactly, this will always be the first batch of moon dust as
| long as the chain of providence can be proved.
| possiblydrunk wrote:
| From the auction site:
|
| 5 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) aluminum sample stubs, each
| topped with approximately 10 mm diameter carbon tape containing
| Apollo Moon dust,
|
| So, this is truly a vary thin "layer" of moon dust. Maybe less
| than a mg per sample. I wonder if there's even enough there to
| smell it.
| jrodthree24 wrote:
| Soon we will be able to buy it on Amazon by the bucket after
| Jeff Bezos privatizes the moon.
| robotnikman wrote:
| Apparently moon dust is very bad for your lungs if inhaled.
|
| It is also an excellent Portal conductor.
| speed_spread wrote:
| To bad you can't use to make lemonade.
| smnrchrds wrote:
| Of course not. You cannot make lemonade with cheese.
| nsxwolf wrote:
| It's almost like an entire planet made out of asbestos. Dust
| control will be a top concern for any colony.
| acheron wrote:
| Take one last look at your precious human moon. Because it
| cannot help you now!
| brimble wrote:
| That moment when you go "surely not..." and then see the
| little glint from the portal opening is way up on my favorite
| moments in gaming, ever.
| MrFlibbles wrote:
| Ground up moon rocks are pure poison.
| fallingfrog wrote:
| TIL that moon dust apparently tastes and smells like gunpowder.
|
| https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/five-things-you-di...
|
| Now you don't need to buy the moon dust, you're welcome
| MisterTea wrote:
| From the description, moon dust is very much an inhalation
| hazard. The sharp edges means it will embed into lung tissue
| and the composition likely causes silicosis.
| Kon-Peki wrote:
| The price per ounce/kg/whatever must be about as close to
| infinite as you can get (for a physical object).
| kjeetgill wrote:
| You're only thinking in terms of supply but you still need
| sufficient demand!
| rntn wrote:
| A recent study published in the April (2018) issue of the journal
| GeoHealth examined exactly how dangerous that dust can be on a
| cellular level -- and the results are as ominous as the dark side
| of the moon. In several lab tests, a single scoop of replica moon
| dust proved toxic enough to kill up to 90 percent of the lung and
| brain cells exposed to it.
|
| https://www.livescience.com/62590-moon-dust-bad-lungs-brain....
| er4hn wrote:
| This feels very "pop sciency".
|
| A scoop is not a well defined amount (is that a gram? a fl
| oz?). I'm also not sure what happens to brain cells when they
| are exposed to most other things.
|
| In the article Harrison Schmidt ended up with allergy symptoms
| after breathing in an undefined amount of moon dust. He seemed
| to recover after a day and not have his lungs wrecked
| thereafter.
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