Menschen werden bald in der Lage sein, auf dem Mond abzubauen – aber sollten wir das auch tun? Vier Fragen, die es zu berücksichtigen gilt
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-humans-moon.html#google_vignette
Menschen werden bald in der Lage sein, auf dem Mond abzubauen – aber sollten wir das auch tun? Vier Fragen, die es zu berücksichtigen gilt
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-humans-moon.html#google_vignette
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From the article
>NASA’s multibillion-dollar [Artemis program](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf) isn’t just about sending astronauts back to the moon. It’s about paving the way for mining operations.
>[China](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-17/china-us-are-in-a-space-race-to-make-billions-from-mining-the-moon-s-minerals?embedded-checkout=true) is also on a similar trajectory.
>All of this has set in motion a new lunar race with private companies competing to figure out how to extract the moon’s resources, potentially [selling it back to governments](https://www.newscientist.com/article/0-how-should-we-regulate-the-firms-planning-to-mine-and-sell-moon-rocks/) in a cosmic supply chain.
Let the robots do the mining and enjoy a post-scarcity society, but make sure we don’t crack the moon in half with bombs like in The Time Machine, jk. Sharing os caring, humanity deserves better and to be frank, we know we should treat each other better.
What’s the problem?
It’s funny how the TV show „For All Mankind“ laid this out as a possible timeline / possibility in their alternate history if Russia had won the space race which triggered both countries to continually invest into space exploration and it’s now happening
If it stops them from destroy earth? Yes.
But that premise is unfortunately false.
Always makes me think of The Time Machine movie where we shatter the moon trying to build underground condominiums and basically fuck all of humanity.
What about „How much do we mine?“ Do we expect corporations to restrict themselves? At what point does the moon lose the mass required to pull the tide? At what point does its mass mean it will crash into earth or spin off into space? We lol at the short term benefits but what happens in 100 years when it’s still going on?
Why not, I would love some moon cheese. It is made of cheese right?
I feel fairly certain that taxpayers will subsidize corporate adventures to exploit the Moon, which will probably not pay off, but if they do, will only reap dividends for a few oligarchs. I see no reason to expect that lunar exploitation will broadly benefit mankind.
I would honestly prefer that we not ruin another celestial body
The earth is billions of years old. Humans are just hundreds of thousands old and yet..we have managed to foul our nest thoroughly in a geological blink of an eye. How long til we do the same to the moon?
i mean we’ve ruined a planet already, why not its moon while we’re at it, may strike two birds with one stone in the end
Does it hold value? Then of course we should. Why would humanity as a whole not benefit from the giant rock in the sky. Especially if it would mean we could stop destroying the rock we actually live on.
Man, reading all these comments made me realize that pop culture and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race.
”soon” aka journalist speak for “sometime in the next few decades” …
„After the Moon fell from the sky, the Earth could no longer sustain the species.“
The Time Machine
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and their descendants will be trillionaires in the foreseeable future if they pioneer mining the Moon.
If we make the Earth heavier, will it effect our rotation?
This has become a wonderful example for me of a distinction between environmentalists and conservationists. I’ve met several people saying humans shouldn’t „spoil“ the moon. Spoil for whom? No one lives there! It’s like nature is a virtue in-and-of itself to them.
I support protecting our rivers, because I want *people* to be able to enjoy the rivers. I oppose deforestation because I want *people* to be able to enjoy the forests. Call it my anthropocentric bias, but unless we mine so much that it affects the tides on Earth, I really don’t care what we do to the moon’s „environment“.