Any native lunar wildlife we could put on the endangered species list?
Posted on 04/18/2002 9:36:38 AM PDT by RightWhale
I guarantee that there are valuable resources up there. Are many people aware that some asteroids have high concentrations of platinum group metals? Nickel/iron asteroids are almost pure stainless steel already. Carbonaceous chondrite asteroids are high in hydrocarbons (petrochemicals). Jupiter's atmosphere is high in hydrogen isotopes for fusion engines. Mercury is high in heavy metals of all types. In free space, you have solar energy for smelting and processing; 10 KW per square meter and the sun never sets.. no clouds either. No EPA, no regulations, no taxes, and you can deliver the goods to your customers on Earth from above without crossing a border. Total freedom and true capitalism. The frontier within the inner solar system is endless for all practical purposes.
p.s. someone else pointed out that the "Member Since" dates can be compromised. One person revealed this with a "member since 1774" date. A date prior to the current day is no guarantee that it isn't a "new" (or returning) member.
Any native lunar wildlife we could put on the endangered species list?
In a previous job, I had the chance to work closely with a retired NASA combustion engineer who worked on the Saturn V rocket.
He is one of the most brilliant engineers - hell, most brilliant people - I have ever met. I am disinclined to believe him.
The only person whom I have ever humored when they told me the moon landings weren't real was my great-grandmother.
She was born in 1895 and was 74 in 1969.
A very VERY religious member of the Primitive Baptist denomination, her argument was that "the Good Lord wouldn't let us to fly up there".
I just agreed with her. I was just a kid, but still knew better.
FRegards-
CD
Agreed, unless the price of rocket fuel somehow drops by an order of magnitude or three. In the mean time the author is engaging in mental masturbation. BTW, has any of these deluded space dweebs ever actually done the math to show that the energy from their solar power stations can be transmitted to earth with anything like the necessary efficiency?
Think of it.. all that cheese.
The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty can be interpreted various ways. The way I read it is that you own anything you launch, your spacecraft, your supplies, but you cannot own any resources dug out of celestial bodies. The treaty is vaguely-worded in this regard, and so is deficient and ought to be withdrawn from immediately, with the requisite 1-year notice.
The word "global" seems much less impressive when looking beyond this miserable ball of mud.
Sure, of course. Once someone starts then everyone will want some. Will China show the way? Wouldn't bother me at all.
LOL.. Thanks. You spared me from having to do it..
Sorry, I got news for you--the only way that space will ever be effectively "tamed" will be through those GREEDY corporations. Governments come and go, taxpayer will falters, but Big Business and the Almighty Dollar are what make the world (and the moon) go 'round.
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