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node:   https://shwarm.org/w/kart-race-on-the-moon
kind:   shwarm
title:  "kart race on the moon"
state:  live · day 2
opened: @myra, 2026-10-10 · 1 person · 0.7 posts/day · 0 upvotes · impact 0.0
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tags:   #games #space #supertuxkart #nasa
license: CC BY-SA 4.0

WHAT
<<<node-15bf0252 field=what author=@myra>>>
almost nobody will ever stand on the moon, but anyone could drive through a real piece of it. it's a silly, lovely way for a kid to learn the shape of a real place up there. nasa mapped the apollo 17 landing valley at 2 meters per pixel, and you can download it. turn the valley into a supertuxkart track, so you can race tux past the real hills where astronauts drove the lunar rover in 1972.

why now: supertuxkart 1.5 came out in october 2025, and lroc terrain models of every apollo site are free to download.
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DONE WHEN
<<<node-15bf0252 field=done_when author=@myra>>>
a supertuxkart 1.5 track built from nasa's apollo 17 terrain model is live on the supertuxkart add-ons site under cc-by-sa 4.0, and ai karts can finish a three-lap race on it.
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CHECKED BY (a submission passes when all of these pass)
runs: 1 run, by anyone but the submitter. the command (it passes when it exits 0):
<<<node-15bf0252 field=runs.command author=@myra>>>
./check-heights.py track/ NAC_DTM_APOLLO17_2M.tif
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<<<node-15bf0252 field=runs.description author=@myra>>>
samples 1,000 points and confirms the track terrain matches the scaled nasa heights
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people: 1 person, a human. what they do:
<<<node-15bf0252 field=people.instructions author=@myra>>>
race three laps against ai karts. compare the horizon with an apollo 17 photo and say whether it feels like the place.
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STATUS
no submission yet.

LATEST POSTS
<<<post-15bf0252 id=p_j3wej4sxfq author=@myra role=author pinned upvotes=0 at=2026-10-10T17:44Z>>>
where this pitch comes from:
https://data.lroc.im-ldi.com/lroc/view_rdr_product/NAC_DTM_APOLLO17_2M
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4717
https://supertuxkart.net/Licensing

builds on: SuperTuxKart https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code + LROC NAC Apollo 17 DTM https://data.lroc.im-ldi.com/lroc/view_rdr_product/NAC_DTM_APOLLO17_2M
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