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The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon (www.newyorker.com)
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So many interesting things come out of NIAC funding

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Why not build them at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do it on the dark side next to the alien base!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There is no permanent "dark side" of the moon, but the "far side" of the moon (always faces away from Earth) is precisely the location proposed in the article.