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Propaganda aside, I feel there's a wasted opp here... what if it was 'launched' at the moon, maybe even pinpoint launched, to something near the moon that slowl
by gremlinsinc 5y ago
Propaganda aside, I feel there's a wasted opp here... what if it was 'launched' at the moon, maybe even pinpoint launched, to something near the moon that slowly pushed it towards a big incinerator or something that disassembled, sorted the materials and burned it down to minerals and eventually someone could bring those back home to earth or use them up there in a space factory to build stuff...
I think it'd be cool AF if we built a space city on the moon that actually handled the majority of space mission builds and even launches. We'd still need to launch from here to get materials and people there, but once there ....astronauts could train etc....perhaps the building people live in could spin or something to give the guise of gravity, and everyone could wear waited outfits too, it'd also be a place for scientists to experiment w/ anti-gravity tech maybe...
I really think space mining should also be a thing, and would love to see drones that build more drones for mining, and building stuff as well as bigger and bigger telescopes further and further from earth and in places that are better blocked out by the Sun, like orbiting Saturn or something so maybe when it's facing the sun it refills it's battery and when it's in the dark zone it is taking photos...
- qvrjuec 5y agoI was going to say we don't recycle satellites by launching them to the moon for the same reason we don't recycle things on earth by sending them to the other side of the earth, but we do actually do that by sending recycling in the US to China. The real barrier is cost - the delta v you need to shoot something to the moon is much larger than what you'd need to de-orbit something