> Ouliang Chang floated his lunar supercomputer idea a few weeks ago at a > space > conference in Pasadena, California. The plan is to bury a massive machine > in > a deep dark crater, on the side of the moon that’s facing away from Earth > and > all of its electromagnetic chatter. Nuclear-powered, it would process data > for space missions and slingshot Earth’s Deep Space Network into a brand > new > moon-centric era. >
As I recall, the moon is "tidally" (?) locked to the earth, and we always see the same side of it. I further recall that the "other" side of the moon is essentially a giant asteroid shield (for the earth). I don't know the extraterrestial impact flux density, but I'm guessing it is "more often" than the MTBF for a hard disc.
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