This picture proves you wrong.
Look, you can even see the lights from Luna City.
Posted on 07/15/2018 7:36:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A diverse range of scientists, engineers and mining technologists have begun blueprinting what hardware and missions are required to explore and establish a prospecting campaign for water ice at the poles of Earth's moon.
Why have they warmed up to ultra-cold lunar ice? Water ice can be converted to oxygen, liquid water and rocket fuel. Exploiting the stores of this resource — which is thought to be abundant within permanently shadowed polar craters on the moon — could help pioneers survive and thrive on the moon, and help entrepreneurs turn a profit.
For example, United Launch Alliance is maintaining its $3,000-per-kilogram ($1,360 per lb.) offer, first made in 2016, for moon-derived propellant delivered to low Earth orbit. The satellite communications industry could well be the first market for space resources.
Scientists, engineers and exploration advocates are keen to characterize lunar ice as an economic resource. To do so, however, more data is needed about lunar ice deposits, its distribution, concentration, quantity, disposition, depth, geotechnical properties and any other characteristics necessary to design and develop extraction and processing systems.
That said, the biggest uncertainty is still the form of the lunar ice. The method used for mining this resource depends on what form it is in.
Scientists, engineers and exploration advocates are keen to characterize lunar ice as an economic resource. To do so, however, more data is needed about lunar ice deposits, its distribution, concentration, quantity, disposition, depth, geotechnical properties and any other characteristics necessary to design and develop extraction and processing systems.
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Protons, hydrogen from the solar wind? Oxygen found in abundance in Lunar minerals?
It make a better mixed drink.
If you take ice from the moon, you will decrease its mass, causing orbit changes and tidal disasters.
The plan is to replace the ice with unused exercise machines having an equivalent mass.
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.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch—TANSTAAFL?
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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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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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?
Argue with these guys, not us.
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It isn’t ‘science,’ its abuse of technology.
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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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I hope I’m dead before our Moon is simply a refueling station for Elon Musk. ;)
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.
Succinctly stated. Thank you
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We are definitely not going to colonize the moon.
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I simply asked a question you are the one that seems to have the anger issues.
This picture proves you wrong.
Look, you can even see the lights from Luna City.
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Did you mean “Looney City?”
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I fail to see where anger comes into this question.
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