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Mining Moon Ice: Prospecting Plans Starting to Take Shape
Space.com ^
| July 13, 2018 04:04pm ET
| Leonard David,
Posted on 07/15/2018 7:36:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: umgud
Protons, hydrogen from the solar wind? Oxygen found in abundance in Lunar minerals?
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posted on
07/16/2018 7:54:53 AM PDT
by
Ozark Tom
(Leftists have NEVER let trivial things like Facts and Logic get in their way.)
To: Jim 0216
It make a better mixed drink.
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posted on
07/16/2018 7:55:33 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: BenLurkin
If you take ice from the moon, you will decrease its mass, causing orbit changes and tidal disasters.
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posted on
07/16/2018 7:58:53 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
To: Lazamataz
The plan is to replace the ice with unused exercise machines having an equivalent mass.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:04:35 AM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: cpdiii
Several nuclear power devices for electrical generation have already been used in space missions. They just weren’t U.S. space missions. “Thermionic Experiment with Conversion in Active Zone” TOPAZ were operational in the 1980’s.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:05:44 AM PDT
by
Ozark Tom
(Leftists have NEVER let trivial things like Facts and Logic get in their way.)
To: MrEdd
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch—TANSTAAFL?
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:08:59 AM PDT
by
Ozark Tom
(Leftists have NEVER let trivial things like Facts and Logic get in their way.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Ice Pirates could have been one of the best Sci Fi movies ever.
Better writing, better directing, better Actors, and better bad guys would have made a difference.
I recall seeing it in the theater with my friend and we must have had half a case of beer in our pockets.
Good times.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:09:36 AM PDT
by
Radix
(Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
To: Telepathic Intruder
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There is no reason to “explore space.”
The whole humanist scheme is over in 2024 when the first new moon of the fall pops into view at sunset.
That will be the last day of the “kingdoms of men.”
We will be able to explore in our incorruptible bodies if we choose to, but the entire universe will be zapped out of existence in about 1000 years.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:29:41 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Kartographer; raiderboy
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So, you’re willing to blow trillions on a baseless guess that there might be water on a side of the moon that you have not seen, even though the side you have seen doesn’t have enough water to dampen a box of Kleenex?
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:33:38 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: raiderboy
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:34:04 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
To: Dagnabitt
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It isn’t ‘science,’ its abuse of technology.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:35:27 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Lazamataz; raiderboy
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raiderboy is right.
This is foolishness.
How many tons of water do we have in our oceans?
For the cost and risk of getting a ton of water from the moon to Earth we can distill a million tons from the ocean.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:41:27 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: BenLurkin
I hope I’m dead before our Moon is simply a refueling station for Elon Musk. ;)
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:48:52 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
To: editor-surveyor
I think you misunderstanderate the reason.
It is not to mine water and bring it here.
It is to mine water for use there, when we colonize.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:52:26 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
To: editor-surveyor
Succinctly stated. Thank you
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:20:28 AM PDT
by
raiderboy
(Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.ith the solar)
To: Lazamataz
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We are definitely not going to colonize the moon.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:25:12 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: editor-surveyor
I simply asked a question you are the one that seems to have the anger issues.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:29:38 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: editor-surveyor
We are definitely not going to colonize the moon.This picture proves you wrong.
Look, you can even see the lights from Luna City.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:30:53 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
To: Lazamataz
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Did you mean “Looney City?”
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:35:11 AM PDT
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editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Kartographer
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I fail to see where anger comes into this question.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:36:35 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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