notbatman,

I am traveling to Antarctica next week. I will be there for several days. Is there any evidence supporting FE that you would like me to gather or are there any experiments that you would like me to run?

Observations indicated that the Barrier edge had moved some 30 statute miles (50 km) south since Ross's time, which meant that the ship were already south of Ross's record.
Borchgrevink was determined to make a landing on the Barrier itself, and in the vicinity of Ross's inlet he found a spot where the ice sloped sufficiently to suggest that a landing was possible.
On 16 February he, Colbeck and Savio landed with dogs and a sledge, ascended to the Barrier surface, and then journeyed a few miles south to a point which they calculated as 78°50′S, a new Farthest South record

I'm pretty sure that electronic cars are the future, i don't own one myself yet but i want to once the oil reserves dry out there will be the need for
another kind of fuel for cars and electric cars are a step in the right direction. I also think that a lot of people will still drive normal cars until the oil runs out because of the sound and the feeling that you get with a regular more specific fast car or a muscle car for example, but maybe we could solve the sound issue by installing a hifi surround sound system imitating a muscle cars noises  

what do you think about electric cars?

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I don't understand any of this.  I read the subreddit linked above.  Which coins might be stolen if the worst happens?  What does it mean for those of us who have bitcoins stored in segwit addresses and "compatibile" (starting with 3) addresses?

The authorities and higher structures just do not lag behind the scales, everyone wants to have their own profit, this is why the future of this coin is interesting. I also wonder who is behind Bitcoin? somebody knows?)

Has anyone put down a deposit on one of these bad boys? I can’t bring myself to start a 2-year long preorder process.

Steel belted radials were just coming to reality in the years of the various Apollo missions.

Four major components comprised the LRV tire's design: mesh,  tread,  inner-frame and  hub.

The approach worked because each tire was only required to support about 60 pounds of weight (on the Moon, the equivalent of 360 pounds on Earth) and be used for a maximum of 75 miles.

The MET was a two-wheeled vehicle with a tubular structure 86 inches long, 39 inches wide and 32 inches high when deployed ready to use on the lunar surface. The MET had a single handle for towing and has two legs to provide four-point stability at rest.

The MET was stowed during flight in the Modularized Equipment Storage Assembly (MESA) in the LM descent stage, and was used during both EVAs. Equipment was mounted on the MET for the geology traverse included the lunar hand tool carrier and the geology tools it carried, the closeup stereo camera, two 70 mm Hasselblad cameras, a 16 mm data acquisition camera, film magazines, a dispenser for sample bags, a trenching tool, work table, sample weigh bags and the Lunar Portable Magnetometer.

The MET tires were 4 inches wide and 16 inches in diameter, and were inflated with 1.5 psi nitrogen preflight. The tires were baked at 250 degrees F for 24 hours preflight to remove most of the antioxidants in the rubber. Operating limits for the MET tires are -70 deg. F to +250 deg. F.

Empty weight of the MET was 26 pounds, and the vehicle had a useful payload of about 140 pounds (Earth weight) including the lunar soil samples to be brought back to the LM from the geology traverse.

Estimated travel rate of a crewman towing the MET, as determined by tests with the 1/6-g centrifuge rig at MSC, was about 3.5 feet per second, with a one pound of pull required on level sand.

From Press Kit, Release No: 71-3K, Project: Apollo 14.

It wasn't a Sunday trip to the mountains, there were many unknown unknowns. In the end many of those design constraints were moot, but what would you expect from the first trip to the Moon? It was mostly guesswork and the other part is that it was funded by the government, do you know what that means? When the Space Shuttle was designed there were also many other ridiculous constraints because the military wanted to be able go to space and steal a satellite and go back home in less than a day. It was never used but it impacted the Space Shuttle design.

People doubting going to the Moon in '69 should stop with the fake conspiracies and should put things into context. It wasn't that there were aliens, it wasn't that it was all fake. It was that the funding came from the military and you add government red tape bureaucracy and politicians bs and you get something ridiculously expensive and with some doubtful design decisions. It wasn't perfect, it was human but it worked alright.

And then funding was cut so we've had to wait more than 50 years till someone gets to do it in an economically sensible way.

Each wheel had its own electric drive, a DC series wound 0.25 hp motor capable of 10,000 rpm, attached to the wheel via an 80:1 harmonic drive, and a mechanical brake unit. Maneuvering capability was provided through the use of front and rear steering motors. Each series wound DC steering motor was capable of 0.1 hp

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Those ran on two 32aHr batteries each. It's rather amusing how small that battery pack would be today. So yeah, bring your battery, hook it up, and that moon buggy should go!

Power was provided by two 36-volt silver-zinc potassium hydroxide non-rechargeable batteries with a capacity of 121 amp-hr. (242 Ah)

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Six American manned craft landed on the moon, a total of twelve men.