Comment Re:Not the best use of resources right now... (Score 1) 281
Would it really be *that* expensive? The cost is certainly non-negligable, but we can put probes on the moon with fairly high precision. It seems to me that a bunch of (relatively) inexpensive probes could land and unfurl radio dishes. By themselves, this wouldn't do much, but if you have enough of them spread out over a large enough area, and networked them (via lunar-orbiting satellite), they would effectively operate as one large radio antenna. That's the idea behind stuff behind the Very Large Array and so forth.
Again, not exactly cheap to do, but probably not nearly as expensive as one might think.
Again, not exactly cheap to do, but probably not nearly as expensive as one might think.