A Supercomputer On the Moon To Direct Deep Space Traffic

'...couldn't be built on the earth for a fraction of the cost and complexity."

From the article, since you can't be bother to read the fucking thing:

"The problem, and hence the possible need for Chang?s moon base, is that space is getting too crowded to process all the data coming from the varous probes, satellites and robots we have wandering the solar system. Missions are already competing for time and bandwidth, and the situation will only get worse.

Each time a new space ship launches, it?s like adding a new client to the network. The moon base idea would be like adding a new router and server to that network, which would accept signals from space, store them, process them if needed and then relay the data back to Earth as time and bandwidth allows."

Seems like it would be easier just to put up another expensive satellite at one of the LaGrange points every few years with more speed and bandwidth than landing something that we've never built anywhere in some place we've never gone.

You know, in engineering, like sex, experience counts.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/AWfU0wejGrU/a-supercomputer-on-the-moon-to-direct-deep-space-traffic

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