[HN Gopher] Moonbase Alpha Travel Tube Details ___________________________________________________________________ Moonbase Alpha Travel Tube Details Author : zeristor Score : 13 points Date : 2023-10-31 21:23 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (catacombs.space1999.net) (TXT) w3m dump (catacombs.space1999.net) | ugh123 wrote: | If we're just talking human travel and light payloads, why not | lean on EVTOLs on the moon? With less gravity and less | track/infra to build could be a cheaper option | andrewstuart wrote: | I loved Space 1999. | | 1999 was SO far away when I was a kid in the 1970's. | anonymousiam wrote: | I loved watching this show as a kid. | | It's hilarious that the "TRAVEL UNIT" sign hanging from the | ceiling is in MICR font (E-13B). Why would you need a machine | readable font on a sign meant for humans? | | https://www.1001fonts.com/micr-encoding-font.html | sbisson wrote: | There's a fair bit of detail in the recently released Moonbase | Alpha Technical Operations Manual, one of a series of in-universe | documents from various Anderson shows. | imglorp wrote: | That site is a labor of love, and well deserved by the creatives | who made the show. | | I had the Revel model Eagle and it seemed like a sensible design | for lunar utility craft. The Dynetics design seems closest in the | current HLS batch: the opposite of tail sitters. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-10-31 23:00 UTC)