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Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

this may be an asinine fear based on my rudimentary knowledge, but I hope they never drill the moon, because human greed can’t be contained and some dumb ass will just see $$$ signs and want to mine the whole thing up. Then there goes a ton of shit that we depend on the moons gravity for.

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SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The moon is a fourth the size of Earth. Even if we had the infrastructure and technology (spoiler, we don’t), we can’t even make a dent in the moon, at least in the next hundred years or so. Heck, nuking the moon with every nuke humanity has won’t even make a noticeable dent in the moon!

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