Interesting...just goes to show how little we still know about our nearest celestial neighbour.
About time we had a mars rover type mission, or even better about time we got another person on the moon again. Its been far too long
Scientists have created the first map that traces the water content on the surface of the Moon, in the hopes that it may come in handy for astronauts searching for drinking water or fuel. A paper published in Science Advances on Thursday shows how scientists used data taken from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) – an imaging …
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Lunar golf course ? You are going to need bigger balls, assuming you can really plant your feet, I am guessing you will be able to hit about 6 times farther than on Earth, if you think 200 yds is doable for most reasonable golfers then trying to see where the ball went when it's approaching the 1200 yd mark will need bigger brighter balls or a tracking device. Plus without air resistance, 6 times may be conservative.
He3 isn't as rare on Earth as most people claim. He3 is expensive on Earth because there is virtually no demand. If we ever get working fusion there will be demand and people will start separating the various isotopes. This will lead to a dramatic drop in terrestrial prices for He3. Shipping costs from the Moon have to drop by at least an order of magnitude, more probably three orders, for any profitable He3 extraction, assuming fusion power plants become available.
When a business case doesn't have any sizable revenue for at least three decades, it is not a business case.
(it is the optimal fuel for fusion reactors, but very rare on Earth)
Deuterium-helium-3 has a reaction cross-section several orders of magnitude lower than deuterium-tritium at temperatures that current reactors can easily obtain, and only briefly approaches D-T's reaction rate at ~5-10 billion kelvin. This makes it less than optimal for near-term fusion hardware.
Regarding a base on the moon to fuel hypothetical fusion reactors, it's worth noting that helium-3 is the decay product of tritium, which has a 12.5-year half life. I'm willing to bet you can brew up helium-3 from dedicated tritium generators (high energy neutron or proton sources to bombard lithium, boron, or magnesium, like fusion and fission reactors, or a proton accelerator) for less money than operating a moon base. Even deuterium-helium-3 reactors will have a substantial neutron flux from their deuterium-deuterium side reactions, so they might breed their own fuel from a lithium blanket.
Virtually ALL of Earth's groundwater is fission produced, either from Hydrogen and Oxygen daughter atoms, forced into molecules under high heat and pressure, or condensed from molten rock. Earth's atmosphere is constantly being ionized by solar radiation, or blown away by solar wind. Likely lunar water is billion year accretion during full Moon in Earth's vapor trail.
> Virtually ALL of Earth's groundwater is fission produced, either from Hydrogen and Oxygen daughter atoms, forced into molecules under high heat and pressure, or condensed from molten rock.
Looks like your frog pills are well past expiration date.