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2y ago

Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy

Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy

"This is now becoming so real."

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2y ago

Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy

www.space.com /moon-mining-gains-momentum

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Heinlein wrote eloquently on the subject in more than one essay. ”The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” being one, and “The Man Who Sold the Moon” another.
its like they never read science fiction about what happens when the moon shatters.
- I am reading #Seveneves which is about exactly that!
Just can't see anything like this happening until there's not just workable fusion power generation, but portable versions of that technology.... which at this rate and given the challenges currently facing humanity, pretty doubtful that will ever occur. The costs of equipment delivery, resupply, material recovery and transport would be literally astronomical. There's just no way it makes money.
- Why fusion ? A portable fission reactor could do the job.
  
  What would we be mining for that could possibly necessitate and justify the costs of transport (equipment and materials) there and back? Almost any resource would be cheaper to mine on Earth, and the only exceptions would still be so rare as to require gigantic energy inputs.

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