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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by gaius on Sunday January 11, 2009 @01:02PM (#429348)
You mean like the tritium that's just lying there on the surface of the moon? As soon as we have working fusion reactors on Earth that'll make the Saudi oilfields look like pocket change.
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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by gravitycop on Sunday January 11, 2009 @05:35PM (#429737)
It is Helium-3 that is on the moon. Tritium is Hydrogen-3 (and has a half-life of only 12.3 years, so it is unlikely that there is any on the moon).
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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by gaius on Sunday January 11, 2009 @05:52PM (#429764)
You're completely right, my mistake.
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