Lint rollers not just to remove dog hair, but to CURE the MOON!

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Giant lint rollers to collect dangerous Moon dust

In addition to magnetic wands, air showers, and CO2 snow-cleaning systems to prevent astronauts from getting lunar coal-miner's lung.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

"I think that a lot of the solution is kind of boring – good old-fashioned engineering," says Sandra Wagner, head of planetary environment management and integration at Johnson.

Dust may be a [b]niggling problem[/i] for NASA in its plans for the Moon, but it's not insurmountable, says Rajiv Kohli of Johnson.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

oops

― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

I was trying to remember the name of lint rollers last night. because we were watching Dr. Who and there is this scene in Logopolis where The Master gets totally COVERED in spacedust when Logopolis collapses on top of him, but the next scene, he's back as dapper and perfectly groomed in velvet tuxedo as ever.

So I said "eh, what happened there, did he give himself a brush with the Sonic Lint Roller or what?"

So it's nice that now NASA really have invented such a thing. I like when sci fi predicts science.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Mind of Morbidust!

― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

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