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		jvanderbot on Oct 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The case for building a SETI observatory on the mo... Size also. It's easy to spool dish wires out on the ground on the moon, hard to spool them out and keep them where you want in orbit.

a1369209993 on Oct 3, 2020 [–]

> hard to spool them out and keep them where you want in orbit.

Well, it's easy if you rotate the whole thing and use centrifugal force, but that has other problems.

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