The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engineers

Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by WalterBright on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:35AM (#15001506)

> shipping factories

The idea is to ship the factories that build the factories that build the factories that build the factories that can build large ships in large quantities.

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by olivaw_daneel on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:44AM (#15001537)

If only life were an RTS game :)

If we are talking about taking advantage of resources not available on Earth, the untold riches of the Asteroid Belt are eminently more accessible from Mars.

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by wiz21c on Sunday August 13, 2017 @03:19AM (#15001906)

What resources are we missing on earth ? I mean resources that we miss because they're in too low quantities for useful applications (not resources that are scarce and useless or resources whose scarcity is the result of politics)

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by ginko on Sunday August 13, 2017 @06:52AM (#15002408)

One element I can think of would be platinum. It's high price is one of the reasons why fuel cells aren't cost effective at the moment.

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by jacobush on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:13AM (#15002454)

Gold for radiation shielding?

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by WalterBright on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:48AM (#15001557)

Asteroids present other major difficulties, such as being much, much farther away, and having no gravity.

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by airza on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:07AM (#15002182)

I'm not sure how true that is, gravity wells being what they are

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