Lunar studies

Spirit, Power and Axis of everything, in our mortal eyes there is Emptiness: for the truly complete in these empty ones is empty. The Moon, the Axis of everything in our world, is therefore empty for them, and SHOULD BE empty. // Дух, Сила и Ось всего, в смертных очах — Пустота: ибо истинно полное в них, пустых, пусто. Луна, Ось всего в нашем мире, для них посему и пуста, и ДОЛЖНА БЫТЬ пустой.

The objective of this experiment was to know if it was possible to obtain clear glass from lunar regolith simulant with as a means of melting, only, with a Fresnel lens of 31x31 cm and at a latitude of 50° and this between the months of December 2021 and January 2021. The answer is yes!!!

Abstract: While the reconstructions of Old Slavic religion are mostly based on solarism and lunarism (solar and lunar mythology), whereby solarism is repre-sented by Alexander Brückner, Vittore Pisani and Raffaele Pettazzoni, and lunar-ism by Evel Gasparini, Lubor Niederle, Mircea Eliade and Veselin Čajkanović, Nodilo initiated his own mythological re/construction with the epicentral myth-eme (or, in his attribution – mythologem) of Svantevit (Svantevid/Vid), consid-ering that Helmold’s Chronicle of the Slavs determines Arkona’s Svantevit as deus deorum of the Baltic-Polish Slavs (Svantevit’s Temple in Arkona on Rujana – the present-day Baltic island of Rügen/Rugia). In the last chapter of his study The Old Faith of Serbs and Croats (1885–1890), it is evident that Nodilo did not apply the absolute conclusion of pansolarism in his re/contruction of the old faith of Serbs and Croats. Keywords: Natko Nodilo, The Old Faith of Serbs and Croats, old faith, solarism, lunar mythology, naturism, zoo-symbolism

After half a century hiatus the moon flights are progressing to resume in 2023 with moon landings now scheduled to take place in December 2023. Here is my flight crew interview where I outline my reasons for applying for the historic moon flight which Yusaku Maezawa 前澤友作 of Japan has funded and which Elon Musk's SpaceX corporation of the United States is the flight organiser. My aim to enrol for a moon flight (until September 2022) has been to draw attention to our very rapidly deteriorating environment and the fact that there appears to be a systematic bias in the West to underestimate the speed of climate change in the forecasts. (This bias to much later dates stands in stark contrast to the First Nations of Americas United Nations General Assembly Ethnoclimatology Motion 101292 which stipulated a much faster progression on climate change than the Western academia has been generally forecasting or even admitting - based on indigenous people's ancient ethnohistories how the last Ice Age was ended by then global warming with ice sheets destabilised rapidly. As a result, it is likely, if not almost certain that much faster changes in our climate will occur than those stipulated in the official documents released by UNFCCC, IPCC, WMO, UNEP, IEA, and WTO. Despite my setback in September 2022 regarding my plans to shout about climate change from the moon to get more attention to this important matter, I continue my efforts from this platform to continually remind world's nations that there are "red lines" laid down by others on climate inaction: what they will tolerate and what they will not. We need to avoid a crisis over our sharing of the atmospheric resource of our planet that needs protected against greedy users. This is important as in the past when men were fighting over access to the water holes and clubbing themselves to the death, today such fighting over global warming, climate change, Asia's monsoon rains, and sea level rise would automatically occur in industrial scale with deployment of nuclear weapons (Asia's monsoon can be re-instated by 260 nuclear explosions after the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover melts away by so-called "nuclear winter" effect - but this would involve unacceptable death tolls in the North.)

The paper begins by the sentences where Caesar estates that the druids counted the days at the beginning of night (B.G., VI, 18, 2) and that some of these druids followed a formation during twenty years (B.G., VI, 14, 3-6). Then the paper explores the knowledge that the druids could have about the moon and its motions. The paper discuses the notions of “lunistice” or “moon stand stills” and Metonic cycle and their possible use in Celtic religious traditions. There are treated news by Strabo and Diodorus on possible lunar feasts and the alignments of some monuments in Celtic sites towards the “lunistices”.

Dr Camilla Power (26th March, 2013) - Lunarchy: The original human economics of time. The Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness Salon, The Institute of Ecotechnics, October Gallery, Bloomsbury, London. (Host and compère)

Scientific discourse rarely allows mention of the moon. The enlightenment’s rational tradition drawing from its Christian heritage in male-only theological colleges had problems with two things: 1) women; 2) the moon. Apparent from 'lunatics', 'moonshine', and 'looney' figures as regular patriarchal putdowns. Yet the question of what made us human cannot be solved without a focus on women, the moon and menstruation. African hunter-gatherer cosmology takes the lunar cycle as the crucial timeframe for ritual, sex and economic activities. The shared sources of this cosmology carry us back to earliest human symbolic culture, the very origins of art and ritual itself, over 100,000 years ago. These hunter-gatherer societies are among the most gender egalitarian on earth. But how does such egalitarianism work? Women especially assert power through their bodies collectively to resist any threat of male exploitation. As the moon waxes and wanes, the dynamic of power switches in more or less playful battles between the sexes. No one rules but the moon. Could lunarchy offer us a way to transform our lives and reclaim our revolutionary heritage as humans?

One of the biggest requirements that our world has is for more energy to meet the ever increasing global domestic as well as industrial demand. Hence, there are many projects active ranging from renewable energy to advanced fission and fusion reactors. However, all of the present scenarios either include a rise in global warming or cause some sort of an environmental problem due to radiation or due to excessive by products. Thus, humankind again turns to space for help to the solution of these problems as space is hurdling with almost unlimited raw materials and resources which can be used for the betterment of mankind. Both in the asteroid belt as well as in the moon, there are various sources that can be mined or extracted for Earth. Although some of these sources can also be found on Earth, some of these special minerals and materials can't be mined on Earth, since they are either nonexistent or scarce. One such material is Helium 3, as it is an elemental part of a neutronless fusion process. Unfortunately, Helium 3 is a very scarce material on Earth and the amount of Helium 3 that is needed for a global scale energy production through a fusion reactor is much higher then that which can be found on Earth. Luckily, especially in the Lunar regolith, large amounts of Helium 3 is present and it can be mined and shipped to Earth for this purpose. Especially with the recent moon missions in the last few years, the surface of the moon as well as the minerals below the regolith have been mapped to a great extent. Hence, this paper discusses methods for the utilization of moon based Helium 3 for the fusion process as well as the methods for mining the Helium 3 from the moon. In addition, Lunar based processing plant technology as well as the means of bringing it back to Earth will be discussed in this paper. It is hoped that this paper will set a trend as present level technology means for He3 extraction, processing and shipment will be considered.

As a follow-up to my paper on the use of the Fresnel lens to produce oxygen, I looked at its use in the furnace used for this production. I always base myself on: Space Resources, Overview, Editors: Mary Fae McKay, David S. McKay, and Michael B. Duke; Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center; Houston, Texas; 1992, NASA SP-509, as a basis for reflection.

Bouncing Moon: Blueprint for a Capture Model introduces the bouncing-capture hypothesis for the origin of the Moon in Earth’s orbit. The basic idea is that the Moon formed independently of Earth around 4.5 Ga, and collided with and bounced off the Earth around 3.9 Ga. This bounce triggered the lunar cataclysm and resulted in the Moon being captured in Earth's gravity after having lost energy during the bounce. This model also serves to account for many of the largest geological formations found on the Moon such as the South Pole - Aitken basin which is the Earth’s imprint, Orientale basin which is the resulting pyroclastic eruption from a convergence of the bounce’s seismic waves, and the near side lunar maria which are the fall back of some of Orientale’s ejecta, and more. The main purpose of this book is to provide the necessary framework of the model to share with lunar scientists so we can develop a compete understanding of the history of the Moon.

Traditional concepts on lunar bases describe scenarios where components of the bases are landed on the lunar surface, one at a time, and then put together to form a complete stationary lunar habitat. Recently, some concepts have described the advantages of
operating a mobile or "roving" lunar base. Such a base vastly improves the exploration range from a primary lunar base. Roving bases would also allow the crew to first deploy, test, operationally certify, and then regularly maintain, service and evolve long life-cycle facilities like observatories or other science payload platforms that are operated far apart from each other across the extraterrestrial surface. The Nomad
Explorer is such a mobile lunar base. This paper describes the architectural program of the Nomad Explorer, its advantages over a stationary lunar base and some of the embedded system concepts which help the roving base to speedily establish a global extraterrestrial infrastructure. A number of modular autonomous logistics landers will
carry deployable or erectable payloads, service and logistically resupply the Nomad Explorer at regular intercepts along the traverse. Starting with the deployment of science experiments and telecommunication networks, and the manned emplacement of a variety of remote outposts using a unique EVA Bell system that enhances manned EVA, the Nomad Explorer architecture suggests the capability for a rapid global development of the extraterrestrial body. The Moon and Mars are candidates for this "mission oriented" strategy. The lunar case is emphasized in this paper.

Abstract
—Fractionation of particles of solar corpuscular radiation significantly changes from flare to flare;
therefore, the average regularities derived from the contents of inert gases in lunar samples of different cosmicray
exposure age are of particular importance. Simulation of the charge states of inert gas ions (Ne, Ar, Kr, and
Xe) in lunar ilmenites suggests possibility of higher solar flare activity and higher hardness of the solar proton
spectrum
~1
billion years ago.
DOI:
10.3103/S1062873807070180

This paper presents the results obtained during an experiment to melt the LCATS-1 lunar regolith simulant with a Fresnel lens with a view to possible use on the Moon. Fresnel lens has many advantages over mirror, for example its weight, ease of use, low cost, etc.