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The Moon Is Full of Money
- vikramkr 7y agoThis is a well written article, but holy cow did it take an awful long time to get to the point of "there is helium 3 on the moon." Speaking of holy cows - since when has there been anti-moon mining sentiment among hindus? It's super weird that we're grouped with practicing witches in this article, and I tried googling around and couldn't find any information on Hindus being anti space mining. It looks like ISRO is trying actively to mine the moon, but that's sort of the opposite...
- shripadk 7y agoExactly! I have never heard this bit about Hindus being anti-moon mining anywhere. On the contrary, we have always been fascinated by Space: be it in our scriptures or even modern day. I wonder where this misinformation stems from!
- mdorazio 7y agoLet me save you a horrendously long read filled with personal tangents instead of actual facts: there's Helium 3 on the moon in relative abundance. The problem here is two-fold: 1) Helium 3 is mostly only useful for working, energy positive fusion reactors, which... don't exist yet and probably won't for some time. 2) The article makes a big deal about this being a key to reducing fossil fuel dependence, but... that's already happening without fusion and also without a trillion dollar moon mining project.