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2025-05-26 Science & Technology

Retired general issues terrifying warning about China mining the moon: 'Power for the entire world'

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-26 10:07|| || Front Page|| [107 views ] Top
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#1 Space Resources Company Interlune Unveils Full-Scale Prototype of Excavator for Harvesting Helium-3 from the Moon

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-26 10:09|| 2025-05-26 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2

Quick, the US & the M.I.C. needs to bridge this gap.
We need to build Space freighter mining ships to be sent to the Moon to maintain Moon Mineral parity.

Even though the ships will be assembled in space by the Space Workers of American, under the direction of AI and out of sight of the general-public.

The Women's Astronaut League will inspect the Moon operations every 2 years. The proper paperwork and donations will be sent to congress every election season also.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-26 13:00|| 2025-05-26 13:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Gen Kwast is making a "please fund my company" pitch.

The logistics for this are a challenge that is probably even more challenging than the refining technology. There is only about one gram of He3 for every 100 tons of moon rock (and that's nearly a best case guess), so you need to get a whole mining operation transported to the moon before you can even start the refining.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-05-26 16:23|| 2025-05-26 16:23|| Front Page Top

#4 The return on investment just may not be there.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-26 16:31|| 2025-05-26 16:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Why is there so much He3 on the moon but not on Earth? Theoretically, the Earth birthed the moon.

Inquiring minds want to know. Ahhh.....

Helium-3 is thought to be more abundant on the Moon than on Earth, having been deposited in the upper layer of regolith by the solar wind over billions of years,[5] though still lower in abundance than in the Solar System's gas giants.

Because -

Helium-3 occurs as a primordial nuclide, escaping from Earth's crust into its atmosphere and into outer space over millions of years.
Wikipedia

Posted by Bobby 2025-05-26 17:11|| 2025-05-26 17:11|| Front Page Top

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