PH> place for a radiotelescope than parking it at any La Grange
 PH> point. You'd still be getting interference from terrestrial
 PH> radio sources if you parked anywhere else. On the dark side,
 PH> all terrestrial sources of interference would be blocked -
 PH> since they're all line-of-sight.
 PH> But then, if you put it on the dark side, you'd have to
 PH> put at least one satillite in orbit around the moom to
 PH> relay the telescope's findings to terrestrial stations.
 
   You mean `far' side. It has days and nights just as the Earth facing 
side....
 
   And while there will surely be lunar orbiting satcoms (mostly for roving 
surface vechicles/individuals, just like, say, Iridium here), You could (and 
probably would to minimize generating one's own RFI...remember Ellie's HT in 
`Contact?' I'm sure they made minimum use of such things.) just lay a fiber 
optic cable as far across the Moon as you want to either a remote transciever 
on the Lunar limb where Earth can be seen, and/or all the way to a base on 
the Earth facing side. Without weather or burrowing animals, it need be 
buried only a few inches down to protect it from temprature extremes.
 
   Frank
 
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