Comment on Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy

robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Tilted@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why? I would rather have preservation on earth, than on the moon.

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  • 3laws@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are kidding right? The moon is essential for life on Earth.

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    • bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not sure building a moon base to launch spaceships from is going to be the end of the world

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    • Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The moon is essential for life on Earth.

      Yes, but mostly by it’s mass, and maybe by it’s albedo. Is there anything else about the moon of relevance for life on Earth?

      It’s mass of 7 * 10^22^ kg is so enormous, it wouldn’t make a dent if we add or remove hundreds of gigatons, which is far beyond our lifting capabilities at least for the next decades.

      It’s surface is so huge, we cannot affect it’s albedo significantly.

      So even if we approached the moon as a mere profit to be exploited, maximizing output and disregarding any concerns, how could this be detrimental to life on Earth?

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      • majcurve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The moon will be fine and the earth will be fine.

        But for me the idea of some private company extracting massive amounts of profit from something like the moon just sounds wrong.

        We all know they’re not going up there for the good of humanity or whatever. They want to turn their billions into trillions.

        Personally I think they need to give up their wealth on earth first, and then we can think about how best to extract resources from the moon so that it will be beneficial to humans rather than a few bank accounts. We couldn’t do it with oil, but maybe we can with rare moon material? One can only dream.

        I know I know pie in the sky right?

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    • money_loo@1337lemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s also a desolate wasteland we might as well extract the resources from to jump off to better locations in the solar system.

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    • Tilted@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How so? More essential than the Earth?

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