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China is apparently in negotiations with the EU about 'sharing' a
Lunar Base. Just who would be responsible for what is unknown. -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 11:20:30 PM UTC+12, Fred J. McCall wrote:
China is apparently in negotiations with the EU about 'sharing' a Lunar Base. Just who would be responsible for what is unknown. -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw I'm reminded of a segment of Kennedy's Rice University speech; "...man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space." |
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On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7:20:30 AM UTC-4, Fred J. McCall wrote:
China is apparently in negotiations with the EU about 'sharing' a Lunar Base. Just who would be responsible for what is unknown. I heard a North Korea interest in a moon base. It seems that uranium enrichment is trivial in low gravity. Pure Brownian motion diffusion. They like the design of an orbital lab, but would need China to send it up. So diplomatic containers to the moon and back make a good cover for them. |
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... On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7:20:30 AM UTC-4, Fred J. McCall wrote: China is apparently in negotiations with the EU about 'sharing' a Lunar Base. Just who would be responsible for what is unknown. I heard a North Korea interest in a moon base. It seems that uranium enrichment is trivial in low gravity. Pure Brownian motion diffusion. They like the design of an orbital lab, but would need China to send it up. So diplomatic containers to the moon and back make a good cover for them. Are you serious? Despite so many other issues, the last thing China wants is a nuclear armed North Korea. -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net IT Disaster Response - https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Resp...dp/1484221834/ |
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"Greg \(Strider\) Moore" wrote:
wrote in message ... On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7:20:30 AM UTC-4, Fred J. McCall wrote: China is apparently in negotiations with the EU about 'sharing' a Lunar Base. Just who would be responsible for what is unknown. I heard a North Korea interest in a moon base. It seems that uranium enrichment is trivial in low gravity. Pure Brownian motion diffusion. They like the design of an orbital lab, but would need China to send it up. So diplomatic containers to the moon and back make a good cover for them. Are you serious? Despite so many other issues, the last thing China wants is a nuclear armed North Korea. You would certainly think so, but look at the case of Pakistan. -- You have never lived until you have almost died. Life has a special meaning that the protected will never know. |
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On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7:20:30 AM UTC-4, Fred J. McCall wrote:
China is apparently in negotiations with the EU about 'sharing' a Lunar Base. Just who would be responsible for what is unknown. The whole worlds water supply is becoming contaminated by tritium. Water is there on the moon supposedly. In cavities near the moon's south pole. So mining water does have a value. Low gravity manufacturing might also be of value. Things like vapor deposition would have a gravity effect. Good or bad. A lunar transmitter or receiver might be usable. Lasers or RF. Moon silicon would likely have no unique value. The probability of mineable surfaces should equal the earth mine distribution. What new element might be there though? You have to look. |
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On Jul/6/2017 at 1:18 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote :
wrote: The probability of mineable surfaces should equal the earth mine distribution. No. There are no ore forming processes on the Moon. You're absolutely correct for the "No." part. But only kind of correct for the "There are no ore forming processes on the Moon." part. The water ores at the poles have been created by an ore forming process. Meteorite impacts have formed mineable ores on Earth, for example the Vredefort-Wi****ersrand and Sudbury impact structures. Because impact speeds are slower on the Moon, they probably are more prone to make mineable ores on the Moon. Then there is volcanism. There is no more volcanism on the Moon, but some of the ores that have been created eons ago are still there. Earth with its plate tectonics and water has much more interesting ore forming processes. But the Moon still has some. Alain Fournier |
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... On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7:20:30 AM UTC-4, Fred J. McCall wrote: China is apparently in negotiations with the EU about 'sharing' a Lunar Base. Just who would be responsible for what is unknown. The whole worlds water supply is becoming contaminated by tritium. Water is there on the moon supposedly. In cavities near the moon's south pole. So mining water does have a value. Are you serious? You realize that tritium has a half-life of a little over 12.32 years? Even if it was an issue in a little over 2 decades the problem would go away on its own. But somehow I don't think 500lbs of it (over the last 50+ years) spread across trillions of lbs of water is an issue. -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net IT Disaster Response - https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Resp...dp/1484221834/ |
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