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RE: NASA Wants To Test Viability of Lunar Mining

in #technology5 years ago

This is actually kind of exciting as fuck!

From what I read their is a shitload of H3 (hydrogen 3) on the moon, which may serve as a valuable fuel source in the future if we can get our hands on enough of it.

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Yup. There's at least 5 shit-tonnes (which is a lot), on the south pole of the Moon.

Although it is unlikely to be brought back to Earth anytime soon it, can still make a vital spaceport for further advancement into the solar system working as a spot for re-fueling with a lower gravity than on Earth meaning that departing spacecraft won't use as much to leave its orbit.

Good to know! Thanks for the info.

Hopefully we become publicly interplanetary here in the near future.

I agree! We will need to figure out space mining eventually if we are to become a spacefaring civilisation.

Yes, I heard about the H3 things too. This is great because then we wouldn't have to keep carrying fuel from Earth to moon or to mars.