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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
What's also crazy is that a moon day (sunrise to sunrise) is over four weeks of earth time, so that's two weeks of daylight and two weeks of night, every single "day". I'm not sure I'd enjoy that.
Sure, but you'd be living on the Moon, and that's gotta count for some cool points.
Like people working in Antarctica... it's not the most pleasant environment, but the cool factor is off the charts.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
Presumably the solution to the time dilation problem is to simply synch earth-moon clocks whenever they need it. It won't be often. A dirty google search suggest the "lost" time is 0.66 seconds per billion seconds. A billion seconds is just over 30 years. idk how often they'll need to be synched in order for things to work properly, but GPS works so they have the mathematical and technical solutions already.
They'd need it often. Synchronizing Earth-based computers and moon-based computers for communication will be wonky right from the start. Nothing we haven't solved already, though.
There's talk of putting GPS satellites in orbit around the Moon. Once that happens, the notion of any hodge-podge synchronizing between Earth and Moon will be gone. Same reasons as the initial GPS wasn't working on Earth. The Moon will need its own time system, separate from the Earth's to allow GPS to work there.
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