Mooning mine ice? Huh? What?
A lunatic idea. Earth’s hardcore environmentalists will vigorously protest the raping of the moon.
I promise you that there is absolutely NO moon ice. ZIP. This is all a hoax to get your money. We have been there and done that. There is nothing there. We are totally broke and this is a fraud. Close NASA NOW!!
How did this ice form? From what?
Why would they want to mine ice there when they know it’s made of delicious Cheese?
(I think they are Mexican Moonies...)
What about the Helium 3?
Didn’t any of those Rocket Scientists see the Movie “Moon”?
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What a joke!
Did someone get a government grant to think this fiasco up?
Will they be selling ice to eskimos?
Well, climate change is working so well since the arctic has had very little summer, so far. And, at the station Vostok in the antarctic, there has been the coldest temp. ever recorded. These guys have to do something to get uncle sugar to pony up more money for ‘moonbat’ ideas.
That may not go over too well with the space aliens’ reportedly long established operations on the moon. Maybe we can mask our real intentions by telling them we’re selling the ice to our Eskimos.
Ice in of itself has zero energy to offer as a propellant in rocket fuel. It is the ingredient that can be made into rocket fuel. To do this requires an energy source. The two options are galvanic solar cells or a nuclear reactor. This will be an engineering and heavy lift to the moon nightmare. This will not happen in our lifetimes. When cheap payload to the Moon is possible it may happen. I personally doubt it. When and if we can achieve cheap payload to the moon we no longer need to do it. Everything that we put on the moon needs to climb out of its gravity well also to leave.
The concept of ice on the moon is good for a scientific station on the moon. It would make things cheaper and simpler. You will still need a small nuclear reactor or galvanic cells.
Forget the moon as a base of operations beyond the moon.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress!
Robert Heinlein
I need to work for these companies. I need to be automating the testing of their software.
It takes energy to break apart water into oxygen and hydrogen.
It takes energy to transport the machinery to the Moon.
It takes energy to go to the Moon.
Since the article doesn’t mention that, it is a fraud.
If you take ice from the moon, you will decrease its mass, causing orbit changes and tidal disasters.
I hope I’m dead before our Moon is simply a refueling station for Elon Musk. ;)
Until we know, for sure, there’s more frozen H2O there than we could conceivably use to support moonrises in their H2O and O2 needs we shouldn’t be throwing away such a valuably placed resource. If they really want to have extra H2O I’d much rather they move suitably sized pieces from the asteroid belt into position, using some of their supply as reaction mass to get them here, then saving the rest for whatever future usage. If we can do that once we can probably do it as needed and stay stockpiled in H20 without having to export it from Earth’s gravity well.