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Re:Moon’s top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8B people f... by amildie on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:57AM (#29188466)
Unless they're mining straight up bitcoin there is absolutely no way that maintaining a prison facility on the moon would be profitable for the state.
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Re:Moon’s top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8B people f... by Sunspark on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:04AM (#29188568)
There's a lot of valuable Helium-3 on the lunar surface. It's very impractical today to contemplate using it, but if materials science ever advanced enough that we could construct a space elevator, it might be feasible to do exactly that because 1 ton of Helium-3 can apparently generate 1.5x the energy of a Tsar Bomba.
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