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Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon
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| 10/18/11
| Jeremy A. Kaplan
Posted on 10/18/2011 3:42:37 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne
Earth First! (We’ll strip-mine the other planets later).
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posted on
10/18/2011 5:02:09 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(RFP's Law: Whoever blames Bush first shall lose the argument.)
To: KevinDavis
Oh NO! Man-made lunar diminishment!! It will mean the end of the world. Our tides will cease and the oceans will DIAH!!
Taxes will have to be increased to fight global tidal loss! Women and children will be hardest hit! The UN will have to take over the world, or we're all gonna DIAH!!!!
The science is settled. Maybe...
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posted on
10/18/2011 5:07:15 PM PDT
by
TheOldLady
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To: rfp1234
Earth First! (We’ll strip-mine the other planets later). but are these mining jobs shovel ready????
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posted on
10/18/2011 6:12:28 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: ColdOne
Senator Harrison Schmittt The Apollo 17 Astronaut, PHD in Geology with personal hands on touch of the Lunar regolith published his plan. The book is titled, "Return to the Moon"!
He proposes building a lunar colony and lunar minimg opertion to collect Helium 3 which only exists on the Moon. This He3 would be the feedstock for fusion generators built on the moon. The elctricity generated would be converted to microwaves which would be beamed to earth where it would be reconverted into electricity which would power the entire world.
This would be green energy which no earth pollution.
Imagine the education spur when mining students, mechanical engineering, and all the disciplines that would be required to colonize and mine the moon. The educational requirements would spur a genration of students who want to go into space.
I met Harrison Schmitt at the National Spaec Society Internation Space Conferenc in 2007 and believe that this is a PLAN!
To: woodchukwood
I don’t remember that show it isn’t on netflix
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posted on
10/19/2011 12:20:30 AM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: ColdOne
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posted on
10/19/2011 12:50:39 AM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: KevinDavis
This the reason we need to deep six that useless Space Treaty. We have to stake out claims and private property rights on the Moon and take back the high ground of outer space.
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posted on
10/19/2011 12:53:48 AM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: woodchukwood
As a kid born just after the first moon landing I thought everything space related was awesome, even that show.
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posted on
10/19/2011 12:55:41 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: ColdOne
Give it a rest. Relax, the current lunar mining contracts have about another 1,000 years to run. And even then, Earth will be up against some heavy hitters from outsystem. The gas giant Dwellers have held those contracts for several million years and are not about to give them up to some johnny-come-lately Earth-types.
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posted on
10/20/2011 6:03:51 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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