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LunaSea

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22. No need for strip mining.

Reply to Baclava (Reply #17)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 04:04 PM

Sep 2020

It's on the surface. Just hunt them in infrared just after sunset.

Nuclear steam rockets would be very effective assuming you are allowed to lift one from the earths surface.
But they will never be fast enough for interstellar travel.

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Nasa is looking for private companies to help mine the moon [View all] sl8 Sep 2020 OP

Wtaf? SheltieLover Sep 2020 #1

How else is he going to funnel money to his donor buddies or his own son-in-law? Claustrum Sep 2020 #3

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 SheltieLover Sep 2020 #4

I don't trust anything if Trump is behind, but in and of itself, what's wrong... Silent3 Sep 2020 #10

I hope you aren't serious SheltieLover Sep 2020 #11

I'm completely serious Silent3 Sep 2020 #12

These companies have been working toward such goals LunaSea Sep 2020 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author SheltieLover Sep 2020 #2

Mountain top removal on the moon no doubt nt doc03 Sep 2020 #5

Well that will put Wisconsin cheese farmers out of business!! tavernier Sep 2020 #6

They will probably fill up the extraction holes with plastic waste now that Tanuki Sep 2020 #7

but, but, but...nuclear waste could maybe somehow re-charge itself Backseat Driver Sep 2020 #9

WTF? Are there no failed AI robots available for the mining tasks? Backseat Driver Sep 2020 #8

maybe for water ice, the moon is just rock! The asteroids are where the gold is! Baclava Sep 2020 #13

Why would you think these asteroids LunaSea Sep 2020 #14

Strip mining the moons for bits and pieces when you can get a solid metal body just floating around? Baclava Sep 2020 #17

Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2020 #21

No need for strip mining. LunaSea Sep 2020 #22

I was thinking nuclear pulse rockets, exploding small nukes for propulsion Baclava Sep 2020 #23

Popular idea LunaSea Sep 2020 #24

Well, you'd just devalue gold a lot :) Silent3 Sep 2020 #16

That's OK, just give me a thousand tons of gold and I'll pave my driveway with it, just for giggles Baclava Sep 2020 #19

We are many decades away from this being a profitable venture for them. cbdo2007 Sep 2020 #15

I suspect the infrastructure Retrograde Sep 2020 #20

That is probably true...but still I would guess 30 years before we are realistically seeing a mining cbdo2007 Sep 2020 #25

That should be a top national priority dalton99a Sep 2020 #26