...what's the chance of it hitting Earth? We're not that far apart...?

...can it do the job? Have they tried giving it real work assignments of the sort they would actually give to human engineers, and see how it does?

I don't understand why water is so expensive, in some places where it's not scarce. In Suffolk County NY where I live, I pay $33 for water. Per quarter, so $8.25 a month. Meanwhile, next door in Nassau County, some folks pay over $100 a month. I just don't get it.

"and will learn from witnessing the experiment" - but what would they learn? That "pitch is very very thick"?

...or maybe *it* hallucinated that *he* was great.

You know you can text from your computer for either Android or iPhone, right? That's how I do most of my texting...

admits long-distance friendships have become "nearly impossible to maintain."

I guess nobody owns those "computer" things anymore...?

Oops, yeah. And IIRC the Chinese put a lander at the south pole a while back, so they may be having thoughts along those lines...?

Actually, I would think there would be good reasons to put moon bases near the terminator, based on exactly that, i.e. having access to both sunlight (for heating/receiving power) and darkness (for shedding heat) - it would be easier to moderate energy, temperature, etc. if the base were at the terminator. See Roger Zelazny's Jack of Shadows ...

Indeed. Goering had a 140 IQ, didn't make him a good guy.

Oh he does? And you know this... how?

...and how many tons of oxygen?

Well, gee, maybe we could put solar panels on both sides of the moon, I dunno...

Huh? A fission reactor and an RTG are not the same thing. Unless they're talking about a fission reactor that will use thermoelectric power generation from the heat of the reactor...?

A "jar"? You know they make these... folding things that you can put... bills in and then stick in your pocket, right? I can't remember what it's called, though...