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helium3 is getting low, right? I had heard we're looking at mining operations on the moon, but I think that would be a very bad idea...
nothing like unchecked capitalism in space.
There's virtually no helium 3 on Earth, but that's not because we're using it up, it's because there was essentially never any really to begin with.
The moon has helium 3 on its surface so naturally that leads to the idea of mining the moon for the material. But there are no actual serious plans to do so, for one thing nobody knows how you would actually go about doing that. Besides there's practically no market for it, it's used in some fusion research but only a tiny quantity is required and that can be supplied with domestic supplies more or less forever, since it's possible to manufacture it from normal helium.
I think there was a this movie 🤔 about helium 3 🤔 and other stuff on the moon 🤔🤔
Ohhh, yea
It was Nazis 😂
Wait! What about the movie "Moon" (I think).
Isn't that what they were mining?
Were there Nazis in Moon and I've forgotten? I mostly remember 1 or 2 guys
I had Iron Sky in mind 😇:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky
Honestly we're probably way too late to stop that from happening. That's been part of Elon's plans for a long time. Battery power, robot tech, space technology. And Elon isn't the only player eyeing what's out there.
By the time we figure out something better than capitalism will have a few more solar systems to screw up on the new thing too.