Ask ScienceEnglish • 4 months ago

How large would a city/base on the moon have to be in order to be visible with the unaided human eye from earth?

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How large would a city/base on the moon have to be in order to be visible with the unaided human eye from earth?

Ask ScienceEnglish • 4 months ago

Let’s say the roofs are all red, how big does it have to be to be visible as a little red dot?

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So that’s what China was doing back there! Their “sample return” must’ve just been a shipment of astronaut ice cream.
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  Oh yeah, you gotta do periodic quality control… You gotta, don’t Cha know.

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