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2024-08-19 Science & Technology

Chinese Scientists Have Come Up With a Way to Deliver Resources from the Moon to Earth

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Posted by badanov 2024-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top
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#1 Mass driver

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 00:19|| 2024-08-19 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 The Chicoms want to build a catapult on the Moon capable of launching large masses towards Earth? We've seen this movie...

Posted by SteveS 2024-08-19 00:24|| 2024-08-19 00:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Warmed over Heinlein, leaving aside how to catch your payload at the bottom of its quarter million mile fall.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-08-19 00:50|| 2024-08-19 00:50|| Front Page Top

#4 From stories I recall, packages were placed in a near earth orbit(NEO) for retrieval.

In one, a solar powered smelter operated in a stable Lagrange point to render the ore. Other points were used as intermediate storage. A cottage industry of ore tugs operated much like the Great Lakes iron ore boats.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 09:55|| 2024-08-19 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 NASA has tested this type of technology.

Posted by mossomo 2024-08-19 12:31|| 2024-08-19 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Warmed over Heinlein, leaving aside how to catch your payload at the bottom of its quarter million mile fall.

Well, until The Loonies decided that they needed to teach various Earth governments a lesson and started launching payloads at Earth.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-19 20:18|| 2024-08-19 20:18|| Front Page Top

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