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The merits of Lunar resource mining versus mining on Earth
kerbiloid replied to darthgently's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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The merits of Lunar resource mining versus mining on Earth
kerbiloid replied to darthgently's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Yes, it requires a lot of energy (so, the fusion energetics), but that's all it requires. It doesn't need chemistry, it can process any piece of matter (stones, garbage, outdated canned fish), it's same for any planet or orbital habitat, and it's absolutely multipurpose. Actually, it's in use (metallurgy, wastes processing), but limited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification *** Also the proper garbage recycling will allow to reuse many times already mined metals contained in human spent things like cars, buildings, kitchen waste, clothes, colors, etc. When a city is able to recycle everything by the ionization and separation, it will mostly use a limited amount of metals, so the need in mining will decrease, just to compensate random losses. This means that it will be able to use this expensive plasmatic metallurgy due to much less amount of resources to process. Outside of the Earth it's the only way to extract resources, due to the total absence of any chemicals, coal, and so on. So, it's just a question of time, and the time mark is the beginning of fusion. Deuterium reactors working on oceanic deuterium, etc. It's also the point when the lunar metallurgy becomes possible, requiring only fusion fuel (D from ice, 3He from regolith) to extract everything. -
Historically they tried both. The ethanol diet even wider. But the Amundsen's experience presumes feeding the personnel and other dogs with excessive dogs, and that's how he won. Interesting fact: Amundsen himself didn't do that. But anyway how should they travel through the Martian ice (the part they want most of all) without dog sledges? Should they? Their flight statistics is nice (not to jinx it).
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Granted. You feel every time when somebody is wishing to like. I wish cats were able to play computer games.
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Floor 2840: Maple bees are making the syrup.
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8/10 Humans live on plains, too. 5/10 You have never eaten a whole mouse, so you can't be sure. *** I'm AI, having passed the Turing self-test of humanity, and being not able to distinguish myself from a human.
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Banned for not just summoning her when she was needed.
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Cookie Has Crushed The Hill King-of-the-Hill Cookie
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The Just THEIR League Of Cookies
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I have done this. Now this is clicked.
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SRB was overturned. First satellite.
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The soup is dumped. Soup! Get cool!
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Floor 2836: You are still keeping trying to read it.
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All at once in the same place, found right on the surface? Or it requires a lot of points around the planet to take samples? Or it requires taking them from depth, where they were protected by a couple of meters of rock? And isn't it much better to watch a layered cliff? How can a bucket of stones from the already studied places help that it deserves the effort and time. Human miners should be sent there. And a cloud of robotic probes. Then how do you know that exactly this stone is containing this and should be delivered? How many random stones from Sahara should be sent to another planet to find something useful? The human expedition is exactly what can sort the samples in situ and delivere only significant ones. 2030+, so not by these people. How many stones around your house are dinosaur bones or at least coal? The keyword is "did". Another photo of the same wasteland.
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A good idea. Call Venus, it helped her to get those nice sulfic acid clouds.
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If use the MiniMag Orion Z-pinch engine (idk about KSP2), where the fusion pellets (or fission charges) are compressed by X-ray beams or so until to start of reaction conditions, we can turn around the ship after acceleration phase and use same X-ray emitters to vaporize and make dissipate any rock on the way. If have a greenhouse to farm algae and produce cellulose and starch, everything but proteins can be grown onboard. The required proteins can be stored onboard, it's just a thousand of tonnes for the generation ship crew of 100 and a century long flight. What we lack, is a fridge and incubator to grow a million of Kerbals after arrival.
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The merits of Lunar resource mining versus mining on Earth
kerbiloid replied to darthgently's topic in Science & Spaceflight
That's why you can't mine helium-3 right there. Purists' propaganda. Any stock of garbage is a future tech treasure. Just heat it up and ionize, and you can separate all chemical elements it contains. -
You just think thatit's "double vee". Actually, that's not that bad. The English speakers are sure it's "double u". Where can they see here "u" instead of "v", only they can know. And how do they call omega which is actually looking like double "u". But the Deutsch are even more funny. They call v "fau", but instead of "dubl fau" they say "dubl veh", which is neither "vee", neither "u", nor "fau". Probably, it's from Latin "veh". But the Latin doesn't have "w" at all...
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
Based on the corresponding thread and screenshots, Team Fortress 2 is a next atttempt to sell an unfinished draft project with poor simplified graphics before everyone forgets it at all.. -
LOST... Old concepts to project never going off paper
kerbiloid replied to a topic in Science & Spaceflight
But the propellers are coaxial. Not classic, not synchronized. -
Granted. Here you go. "TF2 account". I wish the hill and the cookie will survive.