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LMAO!
Space X is pivoting from Mars to Lunar…
you mean the same old back tracking bullshit that he has always done.
While I don't like Musk, it's actually never made sense to even attempt to go to Mars without taking advantage of the helium-3 stores on the Moon.
The huge potential of helium-3 is for nuclear fusion. Yet we don’t have fusion reactors that use helium-3 and fusion is “20 years away”. We could get to mars before needing this is any quantity
Yes, but wouldn't it become that much easier to achieve with an effectively limitless quantity of the resource?
I don’t know whether that is currently a bottleneck or will be any time soon. I only know we’re “20 years away” from using it regularly, just like we have been my entire life
I suppose it’s good science to figure out if we can do it, just like it’s good science to see if we can establish more access to space