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re: Moon Mining - why major powers are eyeing a lunar gold rush. *hint: energy
Posted on 9/8/23 at 11:23 am to HubbaBubba
Posted on 9/8/23 at 11:23 am to HubbaBubba
Good movie on this was made back in 2009
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Posted on 9/8/23 at 11:41 am to HubbaBubba
How do you mine a hologram?
Posted on 9/8/23 at 11:43 am to jpcajun
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Great... let's tear the moon up.
Unfortunately we can't trust the other powers to not do it, and ironically a war about it would destroy everyone anyways.
Posted on 9/8/23 at 11:43 am to Josh Fenderman
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Good movie on this was made back in 2009
First thing I thought of as well
Directed by David Bowie's son
This post was edited on 9/8/23 at 11:45 am
Posted on 9/8/23 at 11:51 am to HubbaBubba
if theres enough for tens of thousands of years, why not cooperate w the chinese?
This post was edited on 9/8/23 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 9/8/23 at 11:53 am to HubbaBubba
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finite fossil fuels
So just what is Helium-3?
Posted on 9/8/23 at 12:13 pm to jpcajun
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I wonder if we drill and mine the moon, how it will affect the earth.
No worse than windmills, dams, and solar panels
Posted on 9/8/23 at 12:25 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Truck nuts [off]
Posted on 9/8/23 at 12:28 pm to HubbaBubba
And we didn't bring back any dime sized wafers home from our last trip? as well as abandoned going back knowing this information. 
This post was edited on 9/8/23 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 9/8/23 at 12:35 pm to HubbaBubba
The moon is not made of helium-3. It’s likely a trace element and that dime-sized wafer would require mining and processing tons of material on the moon then shipping the finished product back. The cost for setting this up would be around 350 Brazillion dollars.
This post was edited on 9/8/23 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 9/8/23 at 12:44 pm to jpcajun
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I wonder if we drill and mine the moon, how it will affect the earth.
The payload capacity of any space transport vehicle would make the "tearing up" statistically inconsequential.
And if history is any indicator, over the next century mankind will have invented or discovered more viable sources of energy from earths resources long before we spend the trillions of dollars and decades it would take to begin profitable mining operations on the moon.
Posted on 9/8/23 at 12:54 pm to wileyjones
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we got people on the Moon back in 1969
did we though?
But, of course!
Posted on 9/8/23 at 12:57 pm to thelsutigers
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And we didn't bring back any dime sized wafers home from our last trip?
That's the equivalent of asking Lewis and Clark why they did not bring back a vial of penicillin on their exploration of the Louisiana territory.
Posted on 9/8/23 at 1:09 pm to NotoriousFSU
I need dat to powa my gatortail baw
Posted on 9/8/23 at 1:11 pm to HubbaBubba
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few small grains in a "flux capacitor" could power an electric auto for more than a year.
Mine just uses garbage as fuel
Posted on 9/8/23 at 1:13 pm to jpcajun
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I wonder if we drill and mine the moon, how it will affect the earth.
Under the premise of the OP, the amount of material returned to earth would be minuscule relative to the mass of the moon.
Posted on 9/8/23 at 1:22 pm to Cosmo
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Mine just uses garbage as fuel
Only if you have “Mr. Fusion”
Posted on 9/8/23 at 1:24 pm to MikeBRLA
Moon miner is the new oilfield baw
Posted on 9/8/23 at 1:27 pm to HubbaBubba
This was a movie you dumbass
Posted on 9/8/23 at 1:28 pm to HubbaBubba
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For the United States alone, it would only take one space shuttle’s worth of helium-3 to power the entire country for a year. If that were the same amount of oil, it wouldn’t be enough for some to power their cars for an entire year.
And just to think, all this time we've been wasting it on balloons
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