General Question Origins of Brighton Beach

[Urwumpe]

If there is no offical Brighton Beach named on the Moon in real life, I say we pledge as Orbinauts that should any one of us ever personally get there in the future we should publicly proclaim that location to be Brighton Beach.

Who's with me?

I am with you. Even if it shouldn't be me to walk there, no reason not to fight for having this place properly named. :lol:

 

[C3PO]

In that case, wouldn't it be something like Litus Brightonae? :lol:

 

[Artlav]

If there is no offical Brighton Beach named on the Moon in real life, I say we pledge as Orbinauts that should any one of us ever personally get there in the future we should publicly proclaim that location to be Brighton Beach.

Nice, i was wondering whether to land first at the Apollo sites, or some random place. Now it's decided.

 

[martins]

<snip>

Sorry, this was posted by mistake.

Please note that no place called New South Croyden ever existed on the moon, and all stories about the cricket riots and the Big Crack in the dome are baseless rumours, and that I never claimed anything to the contrary.

And of course you won't find anything about it in the history books.

As for the monorail from Brighton Beach - that came out of an end-of-year budget surplus. I am sure we will come up with something useful to build at the end.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Check out your history books:

Brighton Beach used to be the landing facility of a much larger settlement, New South Croydon. Only the monorail to nowhere is left as a memorial to the Cataclysm - but that's another story.

:rofl:

EDIT:

Ok, martins, where are these history books? I have found no trace of them in the documentation...

 

[wehaveaproblem]

If New South Croydon refers to the Croydon I know, then that might explain why Brighton Beach reminds me of masterfully over-optimistic utopian 60's concrete architecture... quite beautiful in its own way...?

 

[garyw]

All this talk of Brighton Beach reminds me of that movie Dark City where everyone remembers a beach but can't remember how to get there or when the last time they went to it was.

I think that the ironic name would be kind of mean to anyone who lives on the moon for an extended period of time and really misses breathing salty air and walking outside in the sun without a spacesuit.

Shell Beach. Dark City is in my top 10 all time favourite movies.

 

[kamaz]

"Beach" is fairly understandable - it's on the shore of the Sea of Rainbows, I think, on a kind of promontory thing that sticks out into the sea - kinda like Coney Island?

It's on the shore of Bay of Rainbows (Sinus Iridum), which is a part of Sea of Rains (Mare Imbrium). The promontory Brighton Beach sits on is called Promontorium Heraclides.

Sadly, the default Orbiter install (low-res textures and no terrain) does not do the place justice. In real life, the location is quite spectacular -- the surface of the sea is quite flat, while the shore rises 3km up. Here is flyover from Kaguya -- Brighton Beach would be in lower-left corner of the screen at 0:41:

Classic papers on lunar colonization (Krafft Ehricke etc.) call for placing bases on the border between highland and mare terrain. The rationale was that mineral composition is different, so a base placed on a "shore" would have easy access to all kinds of lunar rocks.

 

[PennyBlack]

I went to Brighton Beach last year. I got really tired trying to throw the stones into the sea, theres millions of them. There are some nice sized stones, perfect for throwing. I broke one of those tennis ball slingers trying to get them further out. Funny, I actually wondered, while sitting in a cafe as it threw down rain by the gallon, about the very same thing mentioned in the OP. Obvious really when your there. You know what it's like when you mention something like that to your friends seated opersite, who just have no interest talking Orbiter... so lonely.
Believe me, Brighton when it's raining can clean out your wallet faster than a junkie with a switch-blade. But we had a good time visiting the attractions, including the Pavillion ect.
I'd like to think that Brighton Beach is the same or has a connection with the base located on the moon in Orbiters environment. I know one thing, everytime I land at Brighton Beach it's never rained there once, unless I land dureing a meteor shower of course. But what are the odds.
Actualy, I think the same odds as me going to Earthside Brighton Beach on a sunny day. So the displayed video shooter picked a good day to visit that Brighton Beach.

Nice vid.

 

[statickid]

<snip>

Sorry, this was posted by mistake.

Please note that no place called New South Croyden ever existed on the moon, and all stories about the cricket riots and the Big Crack in the dome are baseless rumours, and that I never claimed anything to the contrary.

And of course you won't find anything about it in the history books.

As for the monorail from Brighton Beach - that came out of an end-of-year budget surplus. I am sure we will come up with something useful to build at the end.

Of course you realize that this statement significantly raises the probability of someone creating a new add-on

... And corresponding wiki

 

[Cras]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68333863/TerrainTest/015.PNG
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68333863/TerrainTest/016.PNG

I grabbed these once back when testing the terrain feature in D3D11 client, you can get a sense of what you are actually flying to in Orbiter.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

<snip>

Sorry, this was posted by mistake.

Please note that no place called New South Croyden ever existed on the moon, and all stories about the cricket riots and the Big Crack in the dome are baseless rumours, and that I never claimed anything to the contrary.

And of course you won't find anything about it in the history books.

As for the monorail from Brighton Beach - that came out of an end-of-year budget surplus. I am sure we will come up with something useful to build at the end.

:facepalm: I was trying to be funny about the history books bit... Obviously my humor is terrible again...