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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by SEJeff on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:46PM (#26210375)
For starters, the moon has helium-3, which is incredibly rare on earth and would be very useful for nuclear fusion should we ever figure that out.
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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by edgyquant on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:55PM (#26210408)
The process of mining helium-3 won’t be cost efficient for a long time. It’s an overhyped material that requires sifting through kilometers of lunar regolith for grams of H3
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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by blackrock on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:18PM (#26210757)
It’s not the destination, but the journey.

Mining for He3 would require all kinds of new technology to be invented. And necessity is the mother of all inventions.

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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by edgyquant on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:11AM (#26211246)
For sure and I don’t agree with the GP that the Lunar Gateway is useless. Even it just existing and people going to and from the moon will breed new systemic knowledge and inventions we otherwise wouldn’t have or need. Plus having a constant group of people living in orbit around another celestial body is just sexy in its own right.
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