Eastern Front 2: Nazis On The Moon

Whalers.

But there ain't no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tube.

Is it that it’s Russia and China doing it?

I mean...

If I were writing a fictional story about world domination by ruthless politicking, overthrowing foreign governments, and assassinating key opposition figures around the globe without an effective concern for local populations, it would be about the US.

But if I were writing one where the first step to world domination was an advanced moon base... pretty much gonna be Russia or China.

Here’s my assumption:

• people think nuclear is bad
• it goes without saying (because to that crowd, saying things breaks their worldview)
• duh, nuclear bad, duh
• on the moon
• oniony because it’s a bad idea, and they’re doing it

They’re reading it something like:

Microsoft plans to cool data center using cow urine

You gotta be in a certain worldview, but from that worldview nuclear plants in space sounds crazy.

Honestly it really needed a sequel

Because Russia has still a pretty good way of sending rockets to space. The bigger question would be, why you want to do this? And 2nd how would you cool this with no water on the moon

As I see it, three possibilities rise above the others:

• Russia is dusting off and refining plans that the Soviet Union made decades ago, and will claim it as a “huge innovation” or something like that, despite being a concept from the 70s or 80s that just never got off the ground for one reason or another. This could conceivably be done well under the right circumstances, but based on the incredible amount of manufacturing and production issues Russia is having as a direct result of Ukraine War sanctions, it might be that they can’t actually do anything without China’s help, because the highly specialized western equipment they’d normally use is no longer being sold to them, so they need a replacement supplier.
• Russia’s last moon mission went tits up fairly publicly, so Roscosmos is probably thinking they can avoid getting egg on their face if they can persuade China to unify their lunar base ambitions with their own. Note that this ignores the fact that China almost certainly wants to build a moon base entirely on their own, both as a matter of national pride, as well as the fact that they want to fully own any knowledge and expertise gained from such a mission.
• Putin is trying to entice CCP leadership to more closely align themselves with Russia in a geopolitical sense, as a more unified adversary to the west, which these days they both see as an implacable foe that they want to defeat. To me, this is the angle that would make the most sense in terms of convincing CCP leadership… but at the same time, remember that China is absolutely measuring Putin’s back for a knife at this point, because Russia’s got a shitload of natural resources up in Siberia that the Chinese would LOVE to exploit.

Uranium and materials probably. The only rockets that Russia can build are the ones that blow up.

The lunar night is 14 days long. During this time you don't get any sunlight for generating solar power. If you want a permanent base in the moon you need a continuous power source. Oh and also to power that mass driver they're going to use to threaten the entire world with destruction.

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