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[-] optissima@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Imagine claiming mining helium is the solution when free energy is right there radiating from the sun.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

Imagine thinking there's only one solution.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Starting an international corporate race to carve up the moon seems like a good choice.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

That obviously being the only other choice, of course.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe with automated gathering and launched via mass launcher directly into earths athmosphere, it could be somewhat cost-competitive

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Straw-man and False dichotomy.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

They literally made an either or declaration of their own...

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

No a better alternative was pointed out, that does not exclude that others may also exist.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

How do you suggest producing a significant amount of thrust in a vacuum using the sun?

[-] optissima@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Though, of course, simple scientific curiosity may not justify the enormous cost of the undertaking. That’s where commercial interest comes in.

That's not what this is about, the author doesn't care about that, all they see is a finite, exploitable resource that will line their pockets.

However, to answer your question, we already have that technology.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Solar sails don't produce a significant amount of thrust, you didn't answer my question.

[-] optissima@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Nuclear, or if you want space stuff, build a station at the Lagrange point and sling from there? I don't need to be an expert in launch solutions to know that we shouldn't speculate mining the moon till it's well researched and that we have more accessible options here for the forseeable future with solar as my choice of example, so let's not jump the gun on another finite resource?

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You can't launch a rocket using solar. Nuclear is exactly what helium-3 will provide. Speculation is the first step of exploiting the Moon's value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Nuclear_fuel

Do your research before acting like you know what you're writing about. There are so many things to complain about when it comes to capitalism, this is not one of them.

[-] optissima@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am referring to commercial speculation, and I literally laid this out in the second sentence, thanks!

[-] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Can a solar sail propel an object to relativistic speeds? The whole point of space travel is to go to other planets at a speed fast enough that the people going there will not be dead or elderly by the time they reach their destination. The only way to do that is by achieving light speed or damn near it. I do not want to board a solar sail vessel bound for Proxima Centauri b (4.22ly) and be dust by the time I get there.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

How to get contries to develop their space programs and colonize the moon: "Its made of oil!"

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago

I really wanted to go when I was a kid and was told it was made out of cheese.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I heard it was Wensleydale and I wasn't that keen

[-] optissima@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

More Wensleydale for me then :3

[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This whole post is a joke about Moon Nazis! Is it?

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait, isn’t this just the plot of that Sam* Rockwell movie - Moon?

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Blue0x@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago
[-] confused_code_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeeeesssss. Love seeing Red Rising references. Trying so hard to get my wife to read it

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago

My goodman, you sound like a Red pretending to be a Gold.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I think it was 20 years ago in a sci-fi themed magazine for kids ("Miracles and mysteries of the planet Earth" or "Young erudite" maybe) where I first have read something about this thing being mined in no further than 20 years from then.

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