Russians to setup moon base for mining:

[jread]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17943650-13762,00.html

That's awesome!! Maybe we'll decide to take over the moon as well and a war will break out. A MOON WAR!!! With robots and lasers!!!

I can see them hovering around up there in suits and mining the minerals.... "SCV good to go, sir!"

 

[FoBoT]

Helium-3 is a non-radioactive isotope of helium that can be used in nuclear fusion.

they want to make more fusion bombs to kill us?

 

[kyzen]

Wait, wasn't there a video game about this...

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Helium-3 is a non-radioactive isotope of helium that can be used in nuclear fusion.

they want to make more fusion bombs to kill us?

I doubt it but selling the material to North Korea or China would probably be their goal.


Ausm

 

[lefenzy]

how about to make a fusion reactor for power?

 

[rudder]

The Russians cant even manage thier oil supply they have on earth. How the hell would the pull a moon mining operation off.

 

[Radical Ans]

Originally posted by: jread
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17943650-13762,00.html

That's awesome!! Maybe we'll decide to take over the moon as well and a war will break out. A MOON WAR!!! With robots and lasers!!!

I can see them hovering around up there in suits and mining the minerals.... "SCV good to go, sir!"

And giant CHANSAW HANDS!!

 

[JinLien]

It doesn?t sound feasible to mine the moon and take it back to earth because the energy cost of transport is very likely much higher than the return.

Mining fuel on the moon to supply space mission might be a good idea because the energy consumption of transport from the moon into space is much less than moon to earth.