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| Moon mining? | |
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| CJ | Mar 8 2013, 03:28 AM Post #1 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21685995 Space exploration has long been about reaching far off destinations but now there's a race to exploit new frontiers by mining their minerals. When Neil Armstrong first stepped on the Moon in 1969, it was part of a "flags and footprints" strategy to beat the Soviets, a triumph of imagination and innovation, not an attempt to extract precious metals. No-one knew there was water on that dusty, celestial body. What a difference a generation makes. Mysterious and beautiful, the Moon has been a source of awe and inspiration to mankind for millennia. Now it is the centre of a space race to mine rare minerals to fuel our future - smart phones, space-age solar panels and possibly even a future colony of Earthlings. I would have thought it would be a long time before it becomes economically viable to mine on the Moon, but I'll be interested to see whether anything comes of this! |
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| Kinopio | Mar 8 2013, 05:14 PM Post #2 |
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I'm quite surprised by this announcement too as I wouldn't have expected mining activities to occur on the moon so soon. Though I agree, let's see if anything good does come out of this.
Edited by Kinopio, Mar 8 2013, 05:14 PM.
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| Michelle | Mar 9 2013, 05:25 AM Post #3 |
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Hmm... I hope they don't destroy it from the inside-out. |
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