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There's no carbon on the moon.
by dbcooper 7y ago
There's no carbon on the moon.
- RandomInteger4 7y agoThen we put some carbon on the moon. EDIT: This is a perfectly valid reply to the lack of carbon asserted by the parent comment. If it's not there, we put it there. How hard is that to comprehend? Space stations and various materials requisite to the operation of space stations didn't exist in orbit prior to us putting them there.
- apatters 7y agoI'm guessing you only got one or two downvotes. That's enough to gray out a comment on HN. The threshold should be higher imo.
- imtringued 7y agoWe can just skip the moon and go directly to mars then if we have to bring everything from earth.
- RandomInteger4 7y agoThe moon offers the advantage of very little gravity. We also know that the moon contains a wealth of valuable raw materials. Add in some earth based soil, water and plant life, and we have a valuable self-sustaining space outpost for cheaper missions elsewhere in the solar system. Furthermore, most of the moon operations would be automated to reduce the resources necessary to sustain human life till an abundant supply is established through some form of MRE factory.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoApparently there probably is: 'Carbon content and degassing history of the lunar volcanic glasses' - https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2511 https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2511
- dbcooper 7y agoThose ppm values are approx. 1000x lower than earth's crust.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoDefine 'those'.