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"It might be useful some day" If it's iron or aluminium, someone probably will pay silly (Earth) money for it on the Moon during early colonisation, but maybe
by grues-dinner 1y ago
"It might be useful some day"
If it's iron or aluminium, someone probably will pay silly (Earth) money for it on the Moon during early colonisation, but maybe not right at the start when there's no bandwidth it facilities for recycling scrap. Right up until the bigger regolith smelters come online.
The box of pre-loved Beanie Babies, perhaps also quite valuable: who knows how much hydrocarbons will be worth in early lunar colonies. Carbon isn't especially abundant in regolith (compared to silicon, aluminium, iron, etc) and has to be baked out as gases. Though I still doubt you'd have takers if the shipping isn't included...
- dotancohen 1y agoThank you for inspiring my next project. I shall do all in my power to relocate the contents of my garage to the lunar surface. Does anybody have Tom Mueller's phone number?
- grues-dinner 1y agoBest I can do is this very old card I found for a Mr von Braun, I think it is. It's in a very, um, spiky font.
- dotancohen 1y agoThat will do. I don't need reusability, and London makes for a decent Plan B target.
- saalweachter 1y agoHydrogen moreso! Oxygen is usually plentiful in various minerals, but hydrogen tends to get blown into space if there isn't a reactive atmosphere to recapture it.
- grues-dinner 1y agoYes indeed. Apparently some of the carbon will come along with hydrogen as methane when you bake it out of the rock. Separating straight to carbon and hydrogen is a hassle, though, as the carbon clogs the catalyst. Perhaps crashing a carbonaceous asteroid into the moon or disassembling in orbit and landing the results may work?