The Real Reason Countries Are Going Back To The Moon

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Image Credits: NASA/ESO
Music Credit: Anima - The Waning Moon

[fuhkoffandie]

"He who controls the spice, controls the universe."

[themightypen]

This is absurd. Everyone knows the Moon is made of cheese.

[bradbradford]

Someone run a simulation to see how long it would take to mine enough material from the moon and move it to Earth to begin causing gravitational problems

[ubermenschen]

@3:59, you forgot gold, platinum, palladium, tungsten, and Uranium.

[DogsaladSalad]

im glad this one isnt a tiny 1 minute video, im pretty tired of everyone just publishing shorts

[randomperson]

The only thing better than a good day is a good day with a new long astrum video

[tobyglyn]

Very interesting and you actually mentioned that there might be serious pollution associated with "green" technologies which is something that is somehow ignored by most.

[kevinjonesmusic]

Finally a video that touches on the true reason for spending billions on space travel. Mars probably offer as much or more precious metals for the rich to get richer. AND once some of us “volunteer” to go to these planets we should understand that it is a one way trip for some that will only be there to work.

[AstrumBrasil]

The best video explanation I've ever seen on this topic. Thanks Alex, amazing work.😍

[alitalia]

Exploration was usually motivated as much by making money as discovery, at times even more so. I've no doubt we will see development of mining, and other space industries as time goes on.

[tach]

1:40 That is the most Kerbal thing I've seen all week.

[kingmasterlord]

when we mine the regolith we need to draw a pattern and I recommend hexagons across the entire surface so that we can then use it for gaming

[Mirandorl]

"To boldly synergise product lines where no man has identified aggressive market opportunities before" doesn't have quite the same ring.

[desert-stormvet]

The movie "Moon" deals with H3 mining on the moon. It stars Sam Rockwell. Its a decent movie, I recommend it.

[marekkos]

Who ever control the spice, control the universe

[Narmatonia]

Let's just hope the immense difficulty in space mining will give regulations enough time to prevent irresponsible practices by mining companies

[GoodStuff_Travel]

Would human greed eventually destroy the moon? Time will tell

[demmyonline]

This poses an interesting question. Rockets to the moon will probably have large payloads to support the inhabitants, so rather than return empty they could load them up with lunar minerals. The backloading should be relatively inexpensive, but who knows. We have a similar puzzle where I live. Several freight trains arrive daily with provisions from down south. On their return journey, almost every container is empty. We have abundant water where we live, but the trains pass through areas that have been affected by drought for years. Why not have one container on each train carry empty bladders, place one in each container when they're emptied and fill them up before leaving? The precious water could then be distributed where it's most needed.

[dennispeterson]

The trouble with mining the moon for He3 is that if you can get net power from He3 fusion, you can also get it from the easier deuterium fusion, and the waste product of deuterium fusion is half He3, half tritium. You can just use both and then your only input is deuterium, which is absurdly abundant on Earth. Fusion startup Helion Energy is attempting a hybrid deuterium/he3 reactor, saying the combined reaction would produce only 6% of its energy as neutron radiation.

[LawofMoses]

Canada has announced that they will now be mining rare earth minerals as well and we will also be processing them.