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[Grym]

I'm hopeful. We need more space projects and exploration

 

[Windu]

Cool. It will push everyone to have rockets that leave earth orbit.

 

[FUME5]

Sweet, can't wait for the internal politicking to lead to a terrible accident, resulting in the opening of a hellgate.

 

[Ivan 3414]

Considering the state of affairs with Russia why is this even being discussed?

 

[Woorloog]

I think you could mine helium 3 on the moon. There financial benefits to setting up a fully functional base that can mine its fuel and energy for launches. Launching a mission from the moon is way easier than from earth.

He3 is actually worthless until you can create a fusion reaction that actually runs on that stuff. The catch here is that we can't even do far easier deuterium/tritium fusion properly...

No, the reason for Lunar base/station is that it allows for long-term Moon studies and possibly makes a propellant depot a bit easier (ideally, you can get propellant from the Moon).

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

...Can we do with this anybody but Russia?

Literally anybody else.

Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as Space capabilities to its US and Russia.... And everyone else a distant third.

 

[Woorloog]

Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as Space capabilities to its US and Russia.... And everyone else a distant third.

China's catching up quick but the US has a law that prohibits co-operation with China in space matters. Apparently.

ESA suffers from smallish budget and limited scope of operations and planning, it seems.

 

[WaterAstro]

Building an expensive moon coffin.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

On the one hand

Its russia and the us

On the other

Both countries need to realize that the true conquest is outside of earth at this point. And maybe some unity can come from that. Split the universe for Russia and the US, thatll make then happy.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Considering the state of affairs with Russia why is this even being discussed?

Because these things take time and a lot more effort than that.

 

[PingPongvonLaserstein]

He3 is actually worthless until you can create a fusion reaction that actually runs on that stuff. The catch here is that we can't even do far easier deuterium/tritium fusion properly...

No, the reason for Lunar base/station is that it allows for long-term Moon studies and possibly makes a propellant depot a bit easier (ideally, you can get propellant from the Moon).

I thought the real moon boon (heh) as far as interplanetary travel goes is lunar water ice. Fuel and water being the most expensive cargo by weight, if they could use polar and crater ice for drinking water and fuel production it would drastically reduce the costs.

Essentially, run flights to the lunar station with it's own water and fuel source, and then launch interplanetary flights from there.

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

China's catching up quick but the US has a law that prohibits co-operation with China in space matters. Apparently.

ESA suffers from smallish budget and limited scope of operations and planning, it seems.

That's probably because they steal all our technology.

 

[Just_myles]

We all know how this ends.

I came to post something similar. No way this can end well. I don't know if there are any moon resources worth fighting over.

Plus there are the lizard people we would have to contend with.

 

[thebeeks]

I read Jour-J/What If, I'm sure this will end well. 😏

 

[Woorloog]

I thought the real moon boon (heh) as far as interplanetary travel goes is lunar water ice. Fuel and water being the most expensive cargo by weight, if they could use polar and crater ice for drinking water and fuel production it would drastically reduce the costs.

Essentially, run flights to the lunar station with it's own water and fuel source, and then launch interplanetary flights from there.

Yeah, Lunar ice is good. And for now, far more valuable than He3 (and by the time we can make use of that, we can probably mine Saturn for it reasonably economically).
Shame about it being on the poles only though, polar orbits are expensive... (Kerbal Space Program teaches this very well.)

 

[kswiston]

There's less than 60 years left before the moon is scheduled to declare independence, so it's about time they got on this.

 

[somecrazymember]

I hope ESA and China joins aswell

 

[somecrazymember]

China's catching up quick but the US has a law that prohibits co-operation with China in space matters. Apparently.

ESA suffers from smallish budget and limited scope of operations and planning, it seems.

Why that law wtf?

 

[O.v.e.rlord]

Cool

 

[Hambulance]

They are gonna be surprised when they encounter the German Moon Base.

 

[thepotatoman]

China's catching up quick but the US has a law that prohibits co-operation with China in space matters. Apparently.

ESA suffers from smallish budget and limited scope of operations and planning, it seems.

Really? Interesting.

On further study, it sounds like it's an issue with the structure of their space program within the chinese government. It's like if we made NASA a part of the Dept of Energy, which as Rick Perry recently learned, is pretty militaristic and probably would make places like russia a lot more worried about joint operations.

I guess to some extent, everything in any government is going to be somehow connected to that government's military, but I still get the reluctance.

 

[Fenderputty]

He3 is actually worthless until you can create a fusion reaction that actually runs on that stuff. The catch here is that we can't even do far easier deuterium/tritium fusion properly...

No, the reason for Lunar base/station is that it allows for long-term Moon studies and possibly makes a propellant depot a bit easier (ideally, you can get propellant from the Moon).

Ahh so HE3 is way way out there. Gotcha thanks

 

[kevin1025]

Who let Trump watch Moonraker again?

 

[MotionBlue]

Sounds like Russia and America are taking the ultimate step to prevent government leaks on their Orwellian surveillance and social engineering.

 

[Conciliator]

We all know how this ends.

if I gotta die in WWIII, might as well see earth from space first

 

[PixelatedBookake]

its a laser