Um? LOL mun sandcastle on menu

[Grand Lander]

How random i saw this in start menu

[kevinlacht]

Wow I never saw this before, your'e lucky!

[trollmylove]

yea that shows up every so often. I BET that's an actual thing on the mun

[Archangel Lucifer]

I had this on my title screen just before too! Can this be found on the Mun?

[trollmylove]

I had this on my title screen just before too! Can this be found on the Mun?

i don't think anyone knows yet

[Felsmak]

This has to be done in real life.

[Stoup]

Nova has stated that this is not an actual object on the mun, unfortunately

[zapy97]

i was wondering how to get inside, but i forgot "IT'S BIGGER ON THE INSIDE"

[SNapple]

When I saw it, I had loaded a game with a new mod, so I disregarded it and thought it was the mod.

*Facepalm*

[MaxMurder]

This has to be done in real life.

I doubt that you could actually build a castle of regolith irl... the absence of water would probably make it very hard to retain a structure. Although this may be a good question for the Mythbusters.

[Nicholas4132]

I doubt that you could actually build a castle of regolith irl... the absence of water would probably make it very hard to retain a structure. Although this may be a good question for the Mythbusters.

It would actually be easier to make a regolith castle than a castle of wet sand. Since regolith has sharp edges, as opposed to weathered sand, it holds its structure extremely well even in a vacuum. That's why astronauts could make such distinct bootprints.

The Mythbusters have already explained this in their Apollo hoax episode.

[Grand Lander]

And ive also seen a rolling helmet in the background!

[Bluejayek]

Actually you could max, for the same reason that footprints appear. Regolith on the moon has irregular jagged shapes that can be locked in place by pressure. On earth, sand is worn into smooth shapes that cant be locked in, hence the need for water to hold sand castles together.

This was actually addressed by the mythbusters when they busted the myth that there is a giant conspiracy that is making us believe the moon landings happened.

EDIT: Woops. I didn't see the posts on second page.

Edited September 9, 2012 by Bluejayek

[Rocket_man]

I've gotten this thing twice. On one of the other threads, Nova said he was wondering how long it would take for someone to find it.

Edited September 9, 2012 by Rocket_man
I should stop typing so fast

[Tommygun]

I wonder how often it spawns.

I play regularly, but have only seen screen captures of it on the forum.

[trollmylove]

I doubt that you could actually build a castle of regolith irl... the absence of water would probably make it very hard to retain a structure. Although this may be a good question for the Mythbusters.

it's possible, it would just be a pretty difficult.

[Tommygun]

This discussion just reminded me of NASA's experiments with microwave sintering to make lunar regolith bricks for constructing structures on the moon.

http://www.lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=Sintered_regolith