Posted on 07/21/2010 5:54:40 PM PDT by KevinDavis
THE possibility of humans living on the moon has moved a step closer after scientists discovered that water there was more widespread than thought.
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For what purpose?
Without a good reason, once more going to the moon is pure waste.
Thinking about space exploration is way beyond me now. Everything is racial politics. We are degenerating as a society into pure tribalism. Space exploration requirement an advanced society and we don’t fit the bill anymore.
Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don’t break
Walking on the moon
We could walk for ever
Walking on the moon
We could live together
Walking on, walking on the moon
Coming from a supporter of the Confederacy..
HE3
Helium-3 (He-3) is a light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. It is rare on Earth, and is sought for use in nuclear fusion research. The abundance of helium-3 is thought to be greater on the Moon (embedded in the upper layer of regolith by the solar wind over billions of years) and the solar system’s gas giants (left over from the original solar nebula), though still low in quantity (28 ppm of lunar regolith is helium-4 and from 0.01 ppm to 0.05 ppm is helium-3).[1] [2]
The helion, the nucleus of a helium-3 atom, consists of two protons but only one neutron, in contrast to two neutrons in ordinary helium. Its existence was first proposed in 1934 by the Australian nuclear physicist Mark Oliphant while based at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory, in an experiment in which fast deuterons were reacted with other deuteron targets (the first demonstration of nuclear fusion).[3] Helium-3, as an isotope, was postulated to be radioactive, until helions from it were accidentally identified as a trace “contaminant” in a sample of natural helium (which is mostly helium-4) from a gas well, by Luis W. Alvarez and Robert Cornog in a cyclotron experiment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in 1939.[4] The presence of helium-3 in underground gas deposits implied that it either did not decay or had an extremely long half-life compatible with a primordial isotope.
Helium-3 is proposed as a second-generation fusion fuel for fusion power uses. Tritium, with a 12-year half-life, decays into helium-3, which can be recovered. Irradiation of lithium in a nuclear reactor — either a fusion or fission reactor — can also produce tritium, and thus (after decay) helium-3.
The country has changed since the 60’s. We are in full tribal mode. Our ruling elites think space exploration is just money wasted that could have been used for social programs. NASA is run by affirmative action bureaucrats now. The shuttle program is too much for them, really.
Now I know why the Confederacy lost, people like you with your attitude where fighting in the Civil War... Such a defeatist attitude..
Yeah. We are now being destroyed by the Commie Usurper in the White Pad, who along with his commie buddies have bankrupted the country to the point we couldn't afford to build a space suit for the mission. He was preceded by Klintoon, who gave the Chicoms the information they needed to get the job done. So the exploration of space will likely be done by them, paid for by our national debt interest.
realistic attitude FRiend. I would like to return to space, but realistically as a nation we are bankrupt. This is what Lincoln wanted. A powerful Federal government crushing states rights. Now Uncle Sam is bankrupt, what to do?
The NAACP would go ballistic if Ziltch started talking moon shot.
Sounds like a great place for all the progressives. They can go start their own “planet” so to speak & leave the rest of us alone.
Potatoes, tomatoes, and corn are new world foods. They pretty much revolutionized the diet of the world. No one knew that they existed before some Spaniards stumbled on them in central and south america.
Not to mention my favorites: chocolate and vanilla.
The point is you don't know what you are going to find over the horizon. But even the act of applying engineering to new and different challenges yields massive, life-changing returns.
And it costs nothing next to the gargantuan sums wasted on great society programs.
Next, Evian will start bottling the stuff.
Ahh, I think what’s missing here Teddy is the thought that this information will compel PRIVATE enterprise to go to the Moon, stake out some real estate, mine the gold and other exotic ores, and basically make a S*&tload of money. Now, in order for any government to stop them, that government would have to have a presence there...but since that gov’t ain’t going there ala NASA, I think it’s a free for all where private enterprise wins. Heck, by the time some government send troops up there to stop them, the PE guys will be on Mars...
One face of the moon is always toward the Sun - and one side always away from it... Freezing cold forever and blistering hot on the other... A small band between the two extreams is the only area a human could “live” - and for what? Mars is better choice - or a moon on a more distant planet...
“No one knew that they existed before some Spaniards stumbled on them in central and south america. “
LOL. Millions of Indians knew about them.
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