Posted on 11/03/2014 2:26:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
Trouble is, by current law, all Moon rocks in the US are owned by the US Govt. Some people have actually gotten in trouble for getting some Moon rock without permission.
Exactly!
And the excess food, oxygen and hydrogen you produce (which you must make anyway) is your export. And brings down the price of more extra-terrestrial growth.
If we’d done that 40 years ago- instead of opting for socialist stagnation- the world economy would be rich and expanding today.
How about the Islamic morons? Can they own moon rocks? How about- if they put a silver sphincter on a part of it, so they can kiss it? Kinda like, kissing an unborn moon turd, in Africa- for the unholy worship of the 13th imam. He is the one coming out of a hole, right. You muzzies, are symbolic. By the by- your days of trouble, are short, and soon to hand.
For whatever unfortunate reason, that doesn’t surprise me....
Yep.
But..but...
We have problems we need to take care of like poverty and starvation right here at home where the money would be better spent.
We have to address the needs of the poor.
We're going to pour billions trillions of dollars down the poverty rathole creating the worlds fattest bunch of poor people, blame the b@tards we're looting to do it, and pi$$ the money for space exploration away kissing the arses of the one group of people on the planet who have sworn to destroy us--oh! and buying votes!
Well, that's closer, anyway.
Our stagnation in this regard is a missed opportunity.
Mining an asteroid is much more sensible. Find an Iron asteroid and launch it into Earth orbit and all you have to do is de-orbit the iron mined. It would be a the top of a gravity cliff. Throw it off. There are bound to be other minerals in the asteroids that would be useful. Diamonds have been found in micro-sizes as well as the original source of mossanites (crystalline Silicon Carbide), and Iridium, gold, cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium, and tungsten etc., are some of the metals found in meteorites.
Focus the sun's light on a small area... melt it that way.
That does solve the fuel and O2 problem but how long would it take you to refine enough steel to build a spaceship or a big building with that method?
It depends on how big you make your mirror. Make the mirror out of mylar and you can have it pretty damn big. You can refine a lot with a lot of heat. The main problem for engineers would be how do you keep your molten metal in one place. ;^)
You have to build a big furnace to bake a lot of fire resistant brick in and build your containment structure with that! ;^)
Agreed about the gravity well.
Humanity’s future as a space faring race will best be accomplished near term by establishing itself inside hollowed out asteroids.
Cite the time, you lyin’ bastard.
Before you call someone a “lyin’ bastard”, you should at least try Google search.
http://www.space.com/11804-nasa-moon-rock-sting-apollo17.html
You really should apologize. Even with disagreement there is no reason to be crude or offensive.
What? Depends on, who the “someone is,is.” Google- “lyin’ bastards.” With deep disagreement there is every reason, for crude offense. Nice koranaic swing and a miss. God is coming, google or not...all the best to you and yours.
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