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This Moon was Made for Mining (Helium-3)
Discovery News ^
| 02/21/11
| Jennifer Ouellette
Posted on 02/22/2011 6:29:17 PM PST by KevinDavis
The 2009 indie film Moon features Sam Rockwell as an employee (named Sam) of the fictional Lunar Industries, a mining corporation back on Earth.
Just wrapping a three-year solitary stint on the moon, Sam is charged with overseeing the automated harvesters which extract helium-3 from the lunar regolith. Canisters of the harvested helium-3 are then sent to Earth to be used to generate fusion energy.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cantbedone; fusion; helium3; moon; space; stringtheory
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To: originalbuckeye; Kevmo; LuvFreeRepublic; LittleBillyInfidel; LucyT; HighWheeler; ChuckHam; ...
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:30:37 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(If you buy a car from GM, you are supporting Obama..)
To: KevinDavis
Pssst...hey Obama....there’s your clean energy AND you can give NASA a mission AND you get get corporate America invovled AND provide limitless energy!!!!
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:35:19 PM PST
by
ak267
To: KevinDavis
Gotta get that ownership thing fixed.
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:35:53 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: KevinDavis
Much H3 on the Moon. The first enterprise to mine it will become super rich. :-)
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:38:44 PM PST
by
Red Steel
To: ak267
That would mean America would have to show exceptionalism, hard work, and technical innovation so that = 0.
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:41:43 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: KevinDavis
The 2009 indie film Moon features Sam Rockwell as an employee (named Sam) of the fictional Lunar Industries, a mining corporation back on Earth. I just saw this. An interesting Sci-Fi movie.
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:41:44 PM PST
by
Red Steel
To: Red Steel; All
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:41:53 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(If you buy a car from GM, you are supporting Obama..)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:43:31 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(I am 19 days from outliving Vince Foster)
To: ak267
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:46:06 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
To: Red Steel
"
I just saw this. An interesting Sci-Fi movie."
It was a very interesting movie.
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:56:42 PM PST
by
PUGACHEV
To: Red Steel
I just saw this. An interesting Sci-Fi movie.
It is a shame that it was such a sleeper when it came out. Great soundtrack (Clint Mansell). One of my favs. Click on image for link to imdb.
Do not watch the trailers on youtube. They all contain spoilers.
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posted on
02/22/2011 6:57:39 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
To: PA Engineer
Here is a safe
YouTube soundtrack of Welcome to Lunar Industries. No spoiler.
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:01:51 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
To: CJ Wolf
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:04:05 PM PST
by
pingman
(Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:29:05 PM PST
by
preacher
(A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
To: KevinDavis
Homer Hickum of 'October Sky' fame wrote a novel based on a guy stealing the shuttle and taking it to the moon. Some of it was far-fetched, but he had a lander that was part inflatable that sounded pretty cool. His take was that we should go back, get H-3, and figure out how to use it.
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:42:06 PM PST
by
Othniel
(There is no god named Allah, and Mohammed is its false prophet.)
To: preacher
Thanks for the link. The video was impressive.
To: Red Steel
Just watched it too...very interesting!
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posted on
02/22/2011 8:12:16 PM PST
by
Claud
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posted on
02/22/2011 8:26:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
Senator (and Lunar astronaut) Harrison Schmitt begs to differ.
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posted on
02/22/2011 8:45:09 PM PST
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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