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Our solar system is supposedly rich with phosphorus, but maybe any solar system with life would also be so blessed.. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020
by jhallenworld 6y ago
Our solar system is supposedly rich with phosphorus, but maybe any solar system with life would also be so blessed..
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17649-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17649-9
Another one might be uranium.
- ghaff 6y agoUranium is mostly just for fission though. Assuming the availability of fusion, probably a reasonable assumption given interstellar travel, I'm not sure you really need uranium very much.
- jhallenworld 6y agoYou can use it to make plutonium for bomb pits. So far the only viable fusion devices are H-bombs triggered by such pits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...