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.
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.