• Question: if you were sruck on the moon, what would you do? what would you do first to help get back to earth?

    Asked by tonieastup123 to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      If you didn’t have any resources, you’d be pretty screwed. If you still had your rocket you would need fuel, which you might be able to find on the moon, but you wouldn’t be able to extract or process it.

      So I’m afraid I’d probably go find a place with a nice view and accept the inevitable!

    • Photo: Catherine Rix

      Catherine Rix answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      I’d have to hope that my oxygen lasted until someone came to rescue me!

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      I would try to signal to someone where I was, then sit still to conserve my oxygen supply and enjoy the view.

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      Make a radio and signal for help. There is almost no other way of being sure I could contact anyone. If I didn’t have a radio, then I’d be stuck so I’d have a biscuit and write a letter.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      I think if I was stuck with plenty of food and oxygen, I would find a way to carve a huge HELP sign into the surface of the moon, because lots of people look at the moon through their telescopes every night and would be sure to see it. I think the letters would have to be hundreds of kilometres high though, so it would probably take months to draw!

      If I didn’t have enough food or air, I would first set about making a way to get more – I have no idea how to do that, so it would need some quick scientific thinking! Then just wait and hope that someone back home would find my note saying “Back in 5, off to the moon”!

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