• @randon31415
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    201 year ago

    What is up with all these moon missions lately? First Russia, then India, now Japan.

    • @jcit878
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      51 year ago

      moon, so hot right now

    • Chariotwheel
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      -31 year ago

      Earth’s fucked. Accelerating plans to advance technology so we can fuck up another planet.

      And “we”, I am mean “them”. The wealthy and their servants.

      • @nexusband
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        61 year ago

        Earth is not fucked, but having a proper moon base makes key technologys a necessity, like really large scale co2 scrubbers. Also, the moon is basically a new gold mine for Helium-3, which is going to be very important in the future.

        Having large scale co2 scrubbers makes a huge difference on earth as well.

        • Bloops
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          11 year ago

          Helium-3 is a fuel for fusion that does have its benefits, but most scientists are focused on Deuterium-Tritium reactions. On the moon, the most concentrated regolith has only 50 parts of helium-3 per billion. That is super sparse. Like, we may as well be sifting uranium out of Earth’s oceans at that point. And if we’re doing giant space-based megaprojects, the gas giants probably have higher concentrations of helium-3 or we could just beam power around from giant solar panels.

      • Bloops
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        11 year ago

        This is a fair argument against Elon Musk’s dream to colonize Mars - it is indeed an escapist fantasy. But with the recent and upcoming moon missions, the involved parties (government orgs!) are quite clear that they’re not doing it out of a false belief that they can make a self-sustaining colony. That stuff is over a century away. Only billionaires and their simps believe it lol.