Aye but they'd still need a lot more space and more energy input to sustain than a hydroponic facility full of plants and vegetables. Unless you genetically engineer them to be big cubes of meat with no legs and store them on racks, but then you'd have a whole new ethical dilemma and that's a big kettle of fish.
Interstellar Colonisation
- Thread starter Darkwave
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The moon has vast quantities of helium 3 that could be used in fusion energy, there's enough on the moon to supply energy to earth and fusion ships for 1000's of years. We need to perfect fusion first, but when we do the moon will become a very valuable resource and will pave the way to interstella travel.
I hope man will step foot on Mars in my lifetime.
I hope man will step foot on Mars in my lifetime.
You could overcome that with a tethered system. Small asteroid on one end of the line (or a collection of assorted space-junk), habitation on the other, set them rotating, and you're in business.
Obviously you'd need quite a long and rather strong bit of string.But that'd be the very least of your problems if you're going to head for a habitable star system... should such a thing exist within 'reach'.
Andrew McP
Problem then is how do you uniformly accelerate the massive mass of the asteroid you just added, and then you have to have far more fuel to push the greater mass.
Once the moon is fully mined wont it become so light it will drift away from earth?? We HAVE to move away from earth, find new planets etc.. get to them as in 5 billion or so years the solar system wont be here anymore 
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.No because the vast majority of the moon is useless rock, we just want the good bits.Once the moon is fully mined wont it become so light it will drift away from earth?? We HAVE to move away from earth, find new planets etc.. get to them as in 5 billion or so years the solar system wont be here anymore
No because the vast majority of the moon is useless rock, we just want the good bits.
Yet whats on the moon could power fusion stuff? I mean you must only need small amounts then, will a teaspoon placed into a fusion reactor power a house lol?
1 shuttle load of Helium 3 - 25T could supply energy to the US for 1 year.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html
LOL.
I actually wanted to put this in speaker's corner but I didn't know if it had to be in the news? 
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Could you elaborate? The comment has me curious.
We're not a species worthy of colonising other planets imo, we can't even exist in harmony on this planet!!
That's true, but who knows. Over time we might learn our lesson.
LOL I like your taste in books sir!We just need to travel to the Suns mavity focal point that aims at Alpha Centauri then make use of the portal that the Down-streamers have left for us
Is it not on earth?
If not, then why the hell do the US keep blasting off to the Space station and doing plenty of other tasks when they could pile all the money up to go to the damn moon and get some of this stuff.
Funding really. It'd cost an absolute fortune to design a lunar mining mission, and train people for it.
Also, there's the question of who actually has mining rights. I'm sure most countries would be offended.
Did you read that article?
Dunno what's up with the spaces in there. We also don't actually have a fusion technique that could do anything useful with it yet I believe