China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

Re:China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout by pjc50 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:06AM (#18910847)

Ah yes, the entirely viable project of moving water from a bone dry vacuum rock to a planet 2/3 covered by water.

I'm not sure it would be viable to return gold from the moon even if the moon was made of solid gold.

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Re:China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout by stcredzero on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:19PM (#18914000)

Ah yes, the entirely viable project of moving water from a bone dry vacuum rock to a planet 2/3 covered by water.

Water as a space resource is primarily talked about for use in space.

I'm not sure it would be viable to return gold from the moon even if the moon was made of solid gold.

It turns out it's a lot cheaper to return stuff from the moon, than it costs to send it to the moon. This is especially true if the stuff is dead, and you don't mind subjecting it to 10's of thousands of g's and you can use electromagnetic accelerators running in free vacuum on the surface, instead of rockets.

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Re:China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout by richardknop on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:35AM (#18911005)

Yeah that's a good point. At least it could be used locally by the colony then.

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Re:China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout by dwighttk on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:43AM (#18911044)

just push the whole thing into the pacific... probs be alright, right?

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