{"id":7114,"date":"2012-10-14T14:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T19:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2016-11-25T20:36:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T02:36:23","slug":"why-we-need-a-supercomputer-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7114","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ouliang Chang floated his <a href=\"http:\/\/denecs.usc.edu\/hosted\/ASTE\/527_20111\/The%20US%20Department%20of%20Space\/G%20Lunar%20Supercomputer%20Complex.pdf\">lunar supercomputer idea<\/a> a few weeks ago at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiaa.org\/Secondary.aspx?id=4571\">space conference<\/a> in Pasadena, California. The plan is to bury a massive machine in a deep dark crater, on the side of the moon that\u2019s facing away from Earth and all of its electromagnetic chatter. Nuclear-powered, it would process data for space missions and slingshot Earth\u2019s Deep Space Network into a brand new moon-centric era.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2012\/10\/supercomputer-moon\/\">Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clearly, the business of dreaming up supercomputers in space is not for those who think small.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ouliang Chang floated his lunar supercomputer idea a few weeks ago at a space conference in Pasadena, California. The plan is to bury a massive machine in a deep dark crater, on the side of the moon that\u2019s facing away &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[922,899,845,512,447],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-big-ideas","tag-dsn","tag-moon","tag-space","tag-supercomputers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7118,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}