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Camping on the Moon Will Be One Far Out Experience
If earth had a mountain so incredibly high that its peak
poked through the outermost layer of our atmosphere,
mountain climbers smart enough and hardy enough to reach
the top would have some idea what it will be like to
be camped on the moon.
For those mountain climbers, it
would be quiet and there would be no wind or weather
to overcome. But without long and careful preparation,
those mountain climbers would have no air to breathe,
no food or water and no protection from the sun's radiation.
All around them would be rocks and, if they were lucky,
perhaps a bit of frozen ice in the crevices that never
saw the sun.
Now imagine that instead of reaching
the peak and glorying in the accomplishment and beauty
of the view for a day or two then returning to the meadows
at the base of the mountain, the mission was to climb
those unforgiving miles to the top and create a base
camp suitable for living months at a time.
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