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The Moon Is Bursting With Precious Titanium
Discovery News ^ | Wed Oct 12, 2011 01:16 PM ET | By Irene Klotz

Posted on 10/13/2011 7:29:56 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Genoa
Oil is what we really need.

The earth is awash in oil. We need the metals.

21 posted on 10/13/2011 8:37:06 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: onedoug
Of course Obama doesn't want to go back to the moon. Whitey is there!
22 posted on 10/13/2011 8:58:19 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Dead Corpse

It’s not impossible. We will need to invent a process other than Kroll or Cambridge to do it, is all, a process that uses lunar materials and solar power.

One we humans have a permanent base on the moon, then real development can start. We do need to work out the basics before we go.

One very useful thing will be a means of storing He3 until someone learns how to burn it in a fusion reactor.

The Moon would be the perfect place for a beanstalk launcher, then we can go to Mars and set up a mine or two there, with a Mars base/beanstalk used as a launch point for asteroid mining.


23 posted on 10/13/2011 9:06:39 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow

Why not roll back to a Hunter process variant? No electrolysis needed.


24 posted on 10/13/2011 9:20:27 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Muzzie outreach and feelgood programs are worth more than piddly American space exploration and exploitation to him and his ilk.


25 posted on 10/13/2011 9:24:53 AM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: chuckles
I hate to always be the cynic, but you can't help but believe NASA is trying to find some funding? Science isn't cutting it, so let's try greed!

I'd rather they made their decisions based on practical, commercial needs, than political ones.

26 posted on 10/13/2011 9:24:56 AM PDT by kevkrom (This space for rent.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Awash in oil? I heard we’re going to run out this century sometime. Then it’s back to real horsepower.


27 posted on 10/13/2011 9:36:35 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Red Badger

Titanium! My Body is 40% Titanium! It’s now worthless!

(Cue up Bender!)


28 posted on 10/13/2011 10:38:30 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Genoa

This is the story of just one of what is probably hundreds, or even thousands, of ‘hidden’ places in the world.

How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia

This story illustrates why the Left is in such a panic over horizontal drilling and fracing.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576602524023932438.html

Here is how they do it, condensed to a couple of minutes;

http://www.northernoil.com/drilling.php


29 posted on 10/13/2011 10:50:17 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: SunTzuWu

I see....
Developing a TI manufacturing capabilty and spacecraft assembly facility on the moon....
Thaaaat’ll make it cheaper.......

see the post following your last one...
he’s got the right idea!


30 posted on 10/13/2011 11:14:35 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Red Badger

The only real benefit of returning man to the moon is if we can convince Democrats that it’s the perfect place to experiment with Socialism. They can bring whomever they want to ensure it’s implemented properly.


31 posted on 10/13/2011 11:19:30 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: onedoug

[ If soetoro has his way, we´ll never go back to the Moon. ]

If you ask “How does the ROP feel about our landing on the moon?” you have your answer.


32 posted on 10/14/2011 9:12:30 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: DBrow

[ It’s not impossible. We will need to invent a process other than Kroll or Cambridge to do it, is all, a process that uses lunar materials and solar power.

One we humans have a permanent base on the moon, then real development can start. We do need to work out the basics before we go.

One very useful thing will be a means of storing He3 until someone learns how to burn it in a fusion reactor.

The Moon would be the perfect place for a beanstalk launcher, then we can go to Mars and set up a mine or two there, with a Mars base/beanstalk used as a launch point for asteroid mining. ]

With curtrent tech we could build moon mining robots that are teleoperated that could mine and refine and build dtructures out of lunar materials. Only after you build a mostly furnished lunar base using robots would you then send humans to live there.

I like the idea of building a “Van Neuman” factory on the moon building more factories which build solar panels on the moon using lunar materials to build a “Solar Belt” around the entire moon circumference. It might look ugly from earth, but it would provide enough energy to power full scale colonization of the moon and would wrap around the entire moon providing power 100% to any lunar establishment and power could even be relayed via microwave satelites back to earth.


33 posted on 10/14/2011 9:17:14 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

I remember a science fiction story in which we sent up robots and teleoperated machines, and we dug deep trenches. We then took the stuff we dug up and fused it into panels, which we fused into boxes, which we put in the trenches and fused them together, then covered them up with more lunar dust and rubble.

A tunnel base underground, using the sun, a nuke reactor, and totally indigenous materials.


34 posted on 10/14/2011 10:37:12 AM PDT by DBrow
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