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To: Cincinatus
Now you're changing the debate.

Someone asserted that there is in fact hydrogen there. It is a claim. There is no hydrogen there, and even if there were, it would not be economic to mine it. A couple billion tons of anything on a planetary scale is commonly called a trace. There might be a cubic mile of gold in the oceans of the world, but who is proposing desalinization for LA with intent to get at the gold as well as the water? Not economic. Can't mine it.

250 posted on 01/06/2003 11:36:37 AM PST by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
Someone asserted that there is in fact hydrogen there. It is a claim. There is no hydrogen there, and even if there were, it would not be economic to mine it.

You are still conflating several different concepts.

1. There IS hydrogen on the Moon. It's in the samples (regolith) and present in quantity at the poles (seen from orbit; neutron spectrometer data and radar). This is beyond dispute -- no one doubts it. The debate is about the physical state of the hydrogen.

2. The definition of an "ore" is economic, not geological. While concentrations are small, quantities are large. If our task were to fill the Atlantic Ocean basin, yes, we would be in trouble. That's not the issue nor the goal.

3. If you insist on being both wrong and wrong-headed, please be my guest.

251 posted on 01/06/2003 11:46:58 AM PST by Cincinatus
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