https://www.space.com/mining-moon-save-life-earth-op-ed
If there was oil on the moon that would mean the moon once had life on it :possadist-ufo:
Imagine underatanding so much about how fucked we are and then instead if saying "let's outlaw plastics bottles and build more trains so we can phase out private vehicles" your answer was "we should destroy the moon"
of course this does forget the fundamental issue with getting millions of tons of industrial equipment out of the earth's gravitational well
not sure anyone has a good way of doing that yet
Also getting (and keeping) abrasive lunar dust out of millions of tons of industrial equipment. That shit's nasty.
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
:tim-curry: I am escaping to the one place uncorrupted by capitalism! SPACE!
It's actually Helium-3, which can be used as a source of energy in nuclear power plants, and at least theoretically is a better source of nuclear power than other sources. Because it's a gas on earth there's not a ton, but it's thought solar winds may have allowed more to be embedded in the lunar crust.
To clarify above comment, it would be used in Nuclear Fusion power, of which we have yet to invent a practical power producing device. We have produced reactors capable of producing net positive energy, but not at an industrial scale.
Man, I am just remembering my high school chemistry teacher making a lesson plan about how, with enough energy, common moon rocks can be reacted to generate iron, titanium, water, and oxygen. And ended with a sci-fi story/proposal of how a few rovers with the reactors and titanium 3d printer and enough solar panels to provide them power, we could just let the rovers spend several years building and expanding a moon base until NASA was ready to send up astronauts to inhabit it. Oh, how nice it was to be a child and optimistic about the future.
