Going to be some very expensive gas.
"Apollo samples typically showed helium-3 concentrations measured in parts per billion. That means enormous volumes of regolith must be processed to extract useful gas. The basic industrial recipe is straightforward on paper. "
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Making the same mistake the Soviets did with their space program. It was more important as national prestige than doing the actual building blocks that get you to the next steps. NASA had far, far more spillover effects into the nation at large than the Soviets ever did. Semiconductors alone are an incalculable benefit.
The last tankie I mentioned this to retorted “Russia had weather satellites”. Yes, they’re adorable.
Please demonstrate working and economic terrestrial energy generation using He-3 fusion first.
Yeah, that’s the thing. He-3 is a second generation fusion technology. We don’t even have net power positive first generation fusion.
Great when we get there, but there are steps we need first.
Lunarians can never go back to Earth because their bones will be so weak…
Yet another reason we’ll never move into space. That’s where Bio of a Space Tyrant gets it right. Humans are able to harness gravity and make it variable. If we could do that, 95% of solar system exploration issues are magically gone.
Iron Sky!
Remember when the idea of the nazis coming back was still funny?
SoyjacksPointing.jpg Netrunner irl?
Hey, I played this game once.
The launch to 23 seconds was the greatest game ever. So many incredible designs, leading to incredible moments. I’m still using my day job playmat for winter 2015 as a giant mousepad.
Then they fucked it up with board wipes and resource hate, and unconditional tagging.
Time to fire up Anno 2205
We cannot be fucking with our moon, else we will shoot our own ecosystems in the foot.
All the moon does it control the tide.
It’s a barren irradiated, lifeless rock.
Short of blowing it up, to my knowledge there is virtually nothing we could do on said moon that would affect us at all on earth.
All the moon does it control the tide.
Yah!! 😜 That’s not all though, surely.
We could lower the entire lunar surface by several meter and not have a dent in the tidal effect
New frontier, my sweaty arse.
I was reading about helium-3 mining in the same magazine for children where I was reading about “The Mummy” filming process, genetically modified small tigers as pets in the future, reconfigurable clothes made of nanobots, aliens and Median state.
Or maybe in a bit different one, both were cool, one was more “popular science” minded, another was yellowish, but entertaining. The former was called “Young erudite”, the latter “Miracles and mysteries of the planet Earth”. Honestly I think I’m going to look them up, if they are still printed. Perhaps get a subscription.
EDIT: Forgot to say the latter magazine for kids had its last issue released in year 2010. Which was the point of my comment, nothing new in talking about mining helium-3.
It’s been a bit since I watched Moon. Fantastic film about the future moon miner.
