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To: Brumar89 who wrote (6189)	1/25/2004 8:51:48 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 20773

I agree with robots, but the moon would be a good cooperative goal. Here is a link to a good He-3 description: space.com and a link collection of various popular press fti.neep.wisc.edu The most obvious way to bring it back is by robotic aerotanker, as liquified product. But production facilities would have to have some permanent or semipermanent residents. There's no radiation problem if you put the operation under a few feet of lunar soil and only do surface work during the 14 day "night shift". This takes 20-40 years to develop this so we better get humping. It is not radioactive and even if it spilled it would disperse very quickly because it is so light, and escape from our atmosphere, blown off by the solar wind. Being not reactive and a noble gas identical in most behavior to common He-4, it is pretty much transparent to all wavelengths. On the final question, alas, yes. We'll be asking the Chinese for a ride. Won't that be embarrassing? That's worse than having your Mom take you and your date to the movies when you were 14. It would also be a stategic blunder but that's what humanity is good at. It's always harder to be smart until your used to it.