Moon Caves - Confirmed

[Mr Spock]

We know about these pits. There are quite a few. Now we know they could be entrances to caves or cave networks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce784r9njz0o

Anybody got a long ladder?

[Carbon Brush]

This is also on the BBC news site.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce784r9njz0o
 

But the BBC proof readers are having (another) day off today.
The "mare" or sea was probably once an ocean,

Ah well never mind. Why let the truth get in the way of a good story🙄

 

 

[wulfrun]

6 minutes ago, Carbon Brush said:

The "mare" or sea was probably once an ocean,

They only missed a few words out..."of molten lava". In recent BBC-terms that's not too bad 😞

Edited July 15 by wulfrun

[LondonNeil]

I wonder if these could be seen by amateur Astronomers?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce784r9njz0o

[MalcolmP]

4 minutes ago, LondonNeil said:

I wonder if these could be seen by amateur Astronomers?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce784r9njz0o

Interesting thanks.

I wonder about my comprehntion and/or that of the beeb :

" It is visible to the naked eye from Earth, and is also where Apollo 11 landed in 1969."

It ?!

  

[Mandy D]

1 minute ago, MalcolmP said:

Interesting thanks.

I wonder about my comprehntion and/or that of the beeb :

" It is visible to the naked eye from Earth, and is also where Apollo 11 landed in 1969."

It ?!

  

They were referring to Mare Tranquilatis with visibility to the naked eye.

[LondonNeil]

Exactly!  Apollo 11 didn't land inside this clanger home.

[MalcolmP]

28 minutes ago, Mandy D said:

They were referring to Mare Tranquilatis with visibility to the naked eye.

I was sort of poking fun at the beeb, it was a new stand-alone 'paragraph' whereas it ought to have been part of the other  - because I am thinking "the moon" well everyone knows Apollo 11 went to the moon, dont they ? , , er
 

[saac]

Cave collapse on the Moon - try getting out of that one. Anyway the soup dragon will already have possession.  

Jim 

[Mr Spock]

4 minutes ago, saac said:

Anyway the soup dragon will already have possession.

@Tiny Clanger Do you have insight on the whereabouts of the Soup Dragon?

[wulfrun]

Anyone else think it's somewhat ironic? Supposedly, we lived in caves millennia ago and left them for better places. Now we should go back?

Edited July 15 by wulfrun
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[TiffsAndAstro]

44 minutes ago, wulfrun said:

Anyone else think it's somewhat ironic? Supposedly, we lived in caves millennia ago and left them for better places. Now we should go back?

 

Edited July 15 by TiffsAndAstro

[TiffsAndAstro]

1 hour ago, Mr Spock said:

@Tiny Clanger Do you have insight on the whereabouts of the Soup Dragon?

Moomins will know which cave it's in

[MalcolmP]

HeadsUp : BBC1 10pm news has just headlined this for inclusion shortly 

 

[Cornelius Varley]

Its a disused launch bay for SHADO interceptors.

[DaveS]

Makes me think of this scene from 2001

 

[Coco]

Back to living in caves again.. 

[Ags]

16 hours ago, saac said:

Cave collapse on the Moon - try getting out of that one. Anyway the soup dragon will already have possession.  

Jim 

Sounds like the plot line for a Hollywood blockbuster.

I imagine the lava tubes are relatively stable, I think ironically the least stable part would be the opening. Perhaps dropping in via a point of collapse is the least safe way to enter the cave network? But by far the cheapest!

Edited July 16 by Ags

[saac]

1 hour ago, Ags said:

Sounds like the plot line for a Hollywood blockbuster.

I imagine the lava tubes are relatively stable,

Yep most likely, after all they have been there for eons with nothing happening to them.  Then we arrive and start drilling and thumping around ! I'd rather be on the surface, on Earth  

Jim

[woldsman]

Dreksler Astro’s YouTube channel has a very good video on Lunar pits and caves. The dimensions (in km) are given and so you can work out the resolution required (in conditions of great seeing!) to observe or image them. 

[Steve Ward]

47 minutes ago, woldsman said:

Dreksler Astro’s YouTube channel has a very good video on Lunar pits and caves. The dimensions (in km) are given and so you can work out the resolution required (in conditions of great seeing!) to observe or image them. 

Dreksler Astral ... 😉

 

 

[JOC]

'Were rabbits'!! 

 

[MalcolmP]

Reminds me of many Star Trek episodes in which the holoprojector malfunctions and reveals the 'observers' (the enterprise crew) to the local yocals (usually pre-warp, pre-industrial, or Utopian civilizations) leading to lots of First Contact farces ! (not unlike Brian Rix farces )
 

Edited July 16 by MalcolmP

[malc-c]

H.G Well was right all along 

[woldsman]