Heinlein sounds correct. I will add:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
I suspect the general problem is letting third parties publish packages in official distribution without any review.
Compare with Debian, where each package has a maintainer who's independent of that package's developer.
Much slower, yes, but when you don't need the bleeding edge, that stability is worth a lot.
Both the high and low speed winds produce a proton flux of 3 × 10^8 protons cm2 sec1 at 1 AU.
Assuming you can collect every proton that hits your surface, and that it's perfectly perpendicular to the sun (which won't be true on a rotating Moon), you could get 1 liter of H2O per 4.64 km^2 and 24 hours. Seems expensive.
3*10^12 protons / m^2 * s.
1 mole of water is 6.022*10^23 molecules, so 12.044*10^23 protons.
We assume we get the electrons for free.
1 mole of water is 18 mL.
So to gather 1 liter, we'd need 12.044*10^23 / 3*10^12 m^2 s
= 401,466,666,666 m^2 s
= 401*10^9 m^2 s
= 401*10^3 km^2 s
= 4.64 km^2 days
As technology improves, the race to the bottom moves forward.
The only viable solution I can imagine is UBI, but implementing that will require a working democracy.
[We] use bad software and bad machines for the wrong things. -- R.W. Hamming
