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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (347462)8/19/2007 12:19:47 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1575212
 
"We should be talking about people visiting Mars and mining the asteroids and setting up a city on the moon....."

We should be mining the Moon, especially the poles. There are likely cubic kilometers of water at the poles. That could be used for nuclear thermal rockets to travel the solar system. It also could be used to fuel the craft to bring back He3 mined from the Moon. The He3 comes from the solar wind, and should be an excellent fuel for nuclear fusion.

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Nickel-iron can be mined just by dragging a magnet through the regolith. And that could be used to build solar powered satellites in geosynchronous orbit.

There is so much we can do once we get to the Moon...
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