X-Message-Number: 20220 From: Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:13:30 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #20182 Re: The non-inevitability of progress --part1_17a.f7f87dc.2ac999ea_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > However instead of repeated visits to the moon, NASA has spent its money on > unmanned projects, and have now got images and data from every planet in > the > solar system except Pluto. > > -- > Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://www.deRivaz.com : > These pictures have been taken by spacecrafts built in the Apollo era for most of them. There are many thing interesting to do on the Moon: -Build a safe nuclear energy technology, including production of unstable isotopes in nuclear blasts. -Make all spectrum radio astronomy on the face opposite to Earth. -Look for Earth meteorites from the big impact age at the start of life. - Mine helium3 for low temperature applications. - make giant particle accelerators (not practical in orbit because of the scale of radiators. -collect solar energy in orbit, beam it to ground and transform it into microwaves before sending it to Earth. (energy conversion in space has a big radiator problem, here the ground serve as a thermal sink). ... Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_17a.f7f87dc.2ac999ea_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20220