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16.10.2012

Uliang Chang, a graduate of the University of Southern California, believes that placing a supercomputer on the moon can solve many of the problems of space exploration.

Chang announced his idea at a conference in Pasadena, California dedicated to space exploration. The plan is to install a powerful supercomputer in one of the deep, dark craters on the far side of the moon. The advantage of such placement is that the supercomputer would be shielded from humanity's electromagnetic noise by the Moon. A powerful computer powered by an atomic or solar power source could be used to process data for space flights and provide deep space communications. This has become increasingly important in recent decades as more and more information is collected by robotic probes, and manned missions are already aimed beyond the Earth's orbit: to Mars and into the Asteroid Belt.

For example, the deep space network of 13 giant antennas located in the US, Australia and Spain is already overloaded. It is necessary either to build new huge transceivers, the operation of which is hampered by the rotation of the Earth, or, according to Chang, to shift data processing to a lunar supercomputer.

Chang believes that the supercomputer should be placed in cold regions near one of the moon's poles. The low ambient temperature will facilitate the cooling of high-performance microcircuits and, most importantly, will allow the use of super-efficient superconducting materials for power transmission. Interestingly, Chang suggests using water to cool the supercomputer. There are hints of the presence of water on the Moon, but no large deposits of ice have yet been found.

There is no doubt about the usefulness of a lunar supercomputer; NASA has repeatedly made statements that in the near future data transmission networks in near-Earth space will be overcrowded. If we add to this the future exploration of deep space, then it is required today to look for solutions to this problem. True, a lunar computer is very expensive: according to various estimates, from 10 to 20 billion dollars. On the other hand, it can become part of an international inhabited lunar base, which will simplify the implementation of an ambitious project.

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