Boost if you agree with at least one of the following:

🦞 Your followers are adorable.
🦞 You're proud to be weird.
🦞 You're awesome, amazing, and worth loving.
🦞 You're queer as fuck or support queer as fuck creatures.
🦞 Pods of ridiculous numbers of blue whales should be trained to and rewarded for capsizing billionaire yachts.
🦞 We should go to the moon again and bring back a buttload of moon rocks so everyone on earth can have a moon rock.
🦞 You like butts. 🍑
🦞 You have a desire to go live in the woods like either an animal or a wise old forest hermit.

No one will ever know which one/s. ;3

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@Bwee That's a lot of moon rocks, especially since most of the surface of the moon is regolith (super-sharp space hell dust). Gets into the whole ethics of space mining. Are you posting from Luxembourg?
@EveOfTheFuture No, I'm posting from Sillyville :3
@Bwee P sure that's in Luxembourg, near the french border
@EveOfTheFuture Hmm. *Peeks outside* Definitely looks pretty French out there. You must be right!
@Bwee wrong, I know which ones 🤪

@Bwee

7 of 8. I don't know if my followers are actually cute.

Also, moon rocks are mildly radioactive (more than the background radiation on Earth) and are therefore quarantined indefinitely as a public health hazard, which is why it's illegal to privately own one. FYI #TheMoreYouKnow

@WarmasterPalak Ohhh wow, okay!! Good to know!!

We can still dream, right? :3

@Bwee

You may dream as much as you like. Fun fact, the radiation from them is stopped by less than a millimeter of metal, so aluminum (or aluminium to my Europeeps) foil, tin foil, or lead foil will block it safely. That's why we can consider forming housing on the moon out of regolith (the word for the general soil-analog of a given body covering the solid rock beneath (it literally means "rock blanket")). We just have to line the inner surfaces with something that will block the radiation, which we would need to do to block the solar raditation, too, so yea!

@WarmasterPalak Oh wow!! You are full of amazing knowledge. I really had no idea about any of this. Thank you for sharing, I love learning about cool concepts like inhabiting the moon and what it would practically take to keep inhabitants safe from the radiation. You (moon) rock!! 🤘
@WarmasterPalak from what I can gather through some (admittedly very brief) reading, it doesn't sound like moon rocks are radioactive enough to pose any real risk. That being said, they do appear to contain a not-insignificant amount of heavy metals and anything that sheds heavy metal dust is usually not awesome for human health lol

@odawgie

I did forget about the heavy metals. Thank you. The half-life on the rocks that have been brought back may be low enough that they aren't regarded as a radioactive threat anymore, but I remember hearing all about their radioactivity back in the 70s when I was growing up.

I can concede that they may not be dangerous anymore but I doubt that really extends to the ones still on the moon. There's no protective magnetic field to shield the moon from solar radiation. I do recall reading something about it being easy enough to shield people from the effects that living on the moon is still considered viable.

@WarmasterPalak solar radiation would definitely be a much greater concern than radiation from the soil, although I honestly can't decipher any useful information on the risk of the ground up there from the couple papers I found. Don't know enough about geology to have any clue what most of them are saying, and my curiosity has been exhausted too much to go find more accessible sources lol

if you're curious, here's one open-access paper I found:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19780004993/downloads/19780004993.pdf?attachment=true
and here's another that's stuck behind a paywall ​ :
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.167.3918.490

@odawgie

Thank you.

As I haven't followed most of the subject since the 70s, it's possible that the risk was amplified by our views of radioactivity during that time period. I will desist and accept that the current view does not include significant radioactivity in its model. I will look at the papers you provided. I do like to be well-informed.

@Bwee

Orcas should be trained to and rewarded for capsizing billionaire yachts.there's no way orcas could topple vessels of that size, you'd need blue whales for that

@lis @Bwee yeah apparently orcas topple working class livelihoods rather than billionaire yachts https://embracing.space/@IngaLovinde/110577353002997060
Inga stands with Ukraine (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] except that apparently they don't attack rich assholes, because rich assholes are rich enough to insulate themselves from the nature, to an extent; and it is poorer people who are harmed the most by heatwaves, floods, wildfires, or, in this case, orcas: https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/display/8a89e8f8-1364-8d99-1442-0dc073303805

Embracing space
@Bwee Damn, how do I boost this 7 times then? 🤔
@Bwee What I agree with all of them? 
@Bwee Does it count if I like it when my cat gives me headbutts?
@Bwee
I think I probably hit five of those. I am surprised it's that many, I guessed at two when I saw the post first.
@Bwee I’d be lying if I didn’t say I agree with all of them.
@Bwee I agree with basically all of that
@Bwee okay but people are definitely going to know which ones, it's right there in my profile
@Bwee was supportive of a few of the early ones, but you had me at orca

@Bwee I AM PROUD TO BE WEIRD AND SOMEHOW SELF-CONFIDENT BY A SERIES OF MIRACLES

and all of them too

@Bwee @prk ¿porqué no los todos?
@Bwee Quite a few. But not THAT one. You know the one.
@Bwee of course I like butts... where else am I to store my rainwater? ;D
@Bwee oh I just assumed it was all of the above that one agreed to, I need to learn to read
@Bwee they're gonna know about the ass thing tho