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To: tejek who wrote (347462)	8/18/2007 8:42:45 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574880

>We should be talking about people visiting Mars and mining the asteroids and setting up a city on the moon......but then we don't have the money to do those things anymore. We should be talking about travel from one coast to another in an hour... -Z

To: tejek who wrote (347462)	8/19/2007 12:19:47 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574880

"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. asi.org 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...