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I think the wealthy would rather take a vacation to the moon.
Likely, but the ice-mining scheme will be much easier to pull off, and will therefore be possible sooner, and is therefore more likely to be the primary means by which these resources are exploited.
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They could also split it up, and ship the gases in compressed form.
Because oxygen and especially hydrogen are such a pain to store compared to water some rocket designs contemplate just leaving all the fuel mass as water and only splitting it into its parts as needed before firing.
So, moon base at a pole can have: 1. Direct sunlight at all times 2. Direct LOS comms to Earth 3. Access to water. Am I correct?
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Because oxygen and especially hydrogen are such a pain to store compared to water some rocket designs contemplate just leaving all the fuel mass as water and only splitting it into its parts as needed before firing.
Don't you need an energy source to turn the water into its parts? That's the energy you recoup when you burn the hydrogen. Or did I miss the joke?
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$ base64 -d ~/tmp/wtf.txt uZbase64: invalid input Edit: I suck and forgot to remove the leading stuff. I love the internet today. If anyone is wondering it is SFW.
Joking aside, wow, why can't we send someone to double check it 60 years later.
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Because oxygen and especially hydrogen are such a pain to store compared to water some rocket designs contemplate just leaving all the fuel mass as water and only splitting it into its parts as needed before firing.
Don't you need an energy source to turn the water into its parts? That's the energy you recoup when you burn the hydrogen. Or did I miss the joke?
> With enough ice sitting at the surface—within the top few millimeters—water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface. OR: It could be collected, shipped back to earth, bottled, and sold to the wealthy at ludicrous prices.
Even sand from the moon would sell for a lot of buck, no need to transport that little water from the moon to Earth where it's abundant, but im sure people would buy end drink that for ridiculous amounts of money.
I wonder why it took several years for this analysis to be done and published. I mean, the data was presumably collected during 2008-2010 or so.