[NetBehaviour] Simulated Worlds.

marc garrett marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Thu Sep 13 13:54:18 CEST 2007


Simulated Worlds.

A few years before the first landing of an Apollo crew on the moon, 
scientists recontoured a volcanic field just outside of Flagstaff, 
Arizona, with artificial impact craters resembling those found on Mare 
Tranquillitatis, the proposed first manned American landing site.

With high explosives, they terraformed a lunar surrogate right here on 
the surface of the earth.

There, during the 60s and 70s, nearly all of the Apollo astronauts who 
walked on the moon were taught the basics in extraterrestrial 
exploration and earthworks. They learned, among other things, how to do 
productive fieldwork using traditional geologic methods such as 
observation, mapping and sample collecting. It is there as well that the 
tools with which human beings would physically deform another world for 
the first time were tried out.

Hammers, adjustable sampling scoops, rakes and tongs, rock drills and 
rover vehicles. Together with astronaut boots and gloves, these would 
soon leave an imprint, albeit minimal, where before meteors and the 
solar wind held a monopoly in lunar resurfacing.

more...
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/09/simulated-worlds.html



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