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NASA's planned moon base announced in 2006 could pave the way for deeper space exploration to Mars, but one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the terrestrial energy industry.

Nestled among the agency's 200-point mission goals is a proposal to mine the moon for fuel used in fusion reactors -- futuristic power plants that have been demonstrated in proof-of-concept but are likely decades away from commercial deployment.

Helium-3 is considered a safe, environmentally friendly fuel candidate for these generators, and while it is scarce on Earth it is plentiful on the moon.

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  • I'm gonna be a space pirate, lurking for unexpecting H3 transport vessels.

    

  • I just knew WW3 would be in space!

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  • intergalactic space travel would be more interesting i need to get in touch with nasa =[

  • I dont see any moral issues...we pillage and plunder and exploit the only green and beautiful planet known, and there are actually people against exploiting a barren rock floating out there?? ludacris

  • @qwasd0r more like a butt pirate u phaggot

  • If the U.S., Russia, and China all allied themselves with each other for space exploration, the world would be such a better place

  • @qwasd0r can I join you in your space venture of robbing unsuspecting space transports

  • China won't like having to rely on anyone else for its energy, a portrait of Mao will replace the American flag lol

  • From one of my favorite books I learned of something called a "sustainability curve".Short of telling people they can't have children,combined with more and more of the world changing to a Western culture including our diet,(I'm Canadian btw) I don't foresee us as a world ever achieving that "sustainability curve".Our population growth and our tech make high demands of our world.Either we make some Very hard decisions or we expand and feed the machine.Read a History book.Prodict what we'll do.

  • Think of it as us just combing the moons serface.It would be no more harmful to the moon then a Japanese garden. And I might add, that there is no ecosytem to effect. And unless the Earth has a sudden massive die off (I realize that sounds dramatic,but how else shall I phrase it?), we will need the resouces as a race to servive. Even if we do everything right, simply by growing in population we will become unsustainable. Do we barrow population controls from China?

  • More material falls to the surface of the earth and the moon every day than we would be taking from the moon in a year. Tons of stuff falls to earth and onto the moon every single day in for form of meteors. No worries about changing the mass of either of these objects by a billionth of a percent over the course of mining even the entire surface of the moon (10s of thousands and thousands of years)

  • am I the only person who is wondering if messing with the mass of the moon is a good idea???

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