Deutsch   English   Français   Italiano  
<vlsrd0$fbe9$2@dont-email.me>

View for Bookmarking (what is this?)
Look up another Usenet article

Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: US Intuitive Machines set for second moon landing in February
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:17:22 +1100
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <vlsrd0$fbe9$2@dont-email.me>
References: <vlqtr9$2epfl$1@solani.org>
 <5qj2ojpnbb47hbcei0v2agik2bjusnak91@4ax.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:17:37 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ae9f3fa303c8fa8440668952d48e0014";
	logging-data="503241"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19q/fZ1ABm2qepeI5GDn1V/d4jMiJ5m+QI="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:7yczKBN01Po9C5uEMIYerD4+uzQ=
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
In-Reply-To: <5qj2ojpnbb47hbcei0v2agik2bjusnak91@4ax.com>
Content-Language: en-US
X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250110-6, 11/1/2025), Outbound message
Bytes: 2393

On 11/01/2025 3:58 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:47:04 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> Intuitive Machines set for second landing, looking to build a lunar economy
>> https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/intuitive-machines-set-for-second-landing-looking-to-build-a-lunar-economy/
> 
> A "lunar economy" sounds silly. There's nothing up there but dirt and
> radiation.


And a whole lot of helium-3.

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4001

> May as well plop your business in the middle of a desert, or
> antartica, or on a barge offshorse.

John Larkin doesn't know enough to realise that the business might be 
exploiting resources that might not be available anywhere else

> I was once involved with some utopians who wanted to set up an ideal
> society, New Island, on a barge in the Gulf of Mexico. Same idea. It
> sounded dreadful so I declined. But at least the barge would have had
> air and rain and a way to paddle home.

John Larkin can understand the need for air and water. He less 
well-informed about more exotic resources, and incapable of learning 
what they might be.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydnhey
>