Earth is not fucked, but having a proper moon base makes key technologys a necessity, like really large scale co2 scrubbers. Also, the moon is basically a new gold mine for Helium-3, which is going to be very important in the future.
Having large scale co2 scrubbers makes a huge difference on earth as well.
Helium-3 is a fuel for fusion that does have its benefits, but most scientists are focused on Deuterium-Tritium reactions. On the moon, the most concentrated regolith has only 50 parts of helium-3 per billion. That is super sparse. Like, we may as well be sifting uranium out of Earth's oceans at that point. And if we're doing giant space-based megaprojects, the gas giants probably have higher concentrations of helium-3 or we could just beam power around from giant solar panels.
This is a fair argument against Elon Musk's dream to colonize Mars - it is indeed an escapist fantasy. But with the recent and upcoming moon missions, the involved parties (government orgs!) are quite clear that they're not doing it out of a false belief that they can make a self-sustaining colony. That stuff is over a century away. Only billionaires and their simps believe it lol.
JAXA was planning to start SLIM’s moon landing in January-February 2024 after Monday's launch, aiming to follow the success of India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar exploration mission this month.
The rocket was also carrying an X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) satellite, a joint project of JAXA, NASA and the European Space Agency.
H-IIA, jointly developed by JAXA and MHI, has been Japan's flagship space launch vehicle, with a success rate of 98% since 2001.
However, after JAXA's new medium-lift H3 rocket failed on its debut in March, the agency postponed the launch of H-IIA No.
Japan's recent space-related efforts have faced other setbacks, with the launch failure of the Epsilon small rocket in October 2022, followed by an engine explosion during a test last month.
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20 Comments
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
Pssshhhh dummies. There's no wind on the moon.
p1mrx@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
There's a wind on moon museum.
Wait, er, air in space.
I'll come in again.
quicken@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
randon31415@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
What is up with all these moon missions lately? First Russia, then India, now Japan.
orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 2y
It's the cool retro thing all the kids are doing these days.
The 60s are in again.
jcit878@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
moon, so hot right now
zephyreks@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
Launches got really cheap recently.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social · -3 pts · 2y
Earth's fucked. Accelerating plans to advance technology so we can fuck up another planet.
And "we", I am mean "them". The wealthy and their servants.
nexusband@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Earth is not fucked, but having a proper moon base makes key technologys a necessity, like really large scale co2 scrubbers. Also, the moon is basically a new gold mine for Helium-3, which is going to be very important in the future.
Having large scale co2 scrubbers makes a huge difference on earth as well.
iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Helium-3 is a fuel for fusion that does have its benefits, but most scientists are focused on Deuterium-Tritium reactions. On the moon, the most concentrated regolith has only 50 parts of helium-3 per billion. That is super sparse. Like, we may as well be sifting uranium out of Earth's oceans at that point. And if we're doing giant space-based megaprojects, the gas giants probably have higher concentrations of helium-3 or we could just beam power around from giant solar panels.
iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
This is a fair argument against Elon Musk's dream to colonize Mars - it is indeed an escapist fantasy. But with the recent and upcoming moon missions, the involved parties (government orgs!) are quite clear that they're not doing it out of a false belief that they can make a self-sustaining colony. That stuff is over a century away. Only billionaires and their simps believe it lol.
RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 2y
moon's not a planet
Chariotwheel@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Progress doesn't start at settling on other planets. Gotta start to refine the technology ssomewhere.
RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
pluto is a planet
fidodo@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 2y
That is such a cool launch pad
_finger_@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Reminds me of Thunderbirds GO!
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Scrubs are cheaper than booms!
autotldr@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 2y
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tokyo-based startup ispace’s (9348.T) lunar lander Hakuto-R Mission 1 failed in April.
JAXA was planning to start SLIM’s moon landing in January-February 2024 after Monday's launch, aiming to follow the success of India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar exploration mission this month.
The rocket was also carrying an X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) satellite, a joint project of JAXA, NASA and the European Space Agency.
H-IIA, jointly developed by JAXA and MHI, has been Japan's flagship space launch vehicle, with a success rate of 98% since 2001.
However, after JAXA's new medium-lift H3 rocket failed on its debut in March, the agency postponed the launch of H-IIA No.
Japan's recent space-related efforts have faced other setbacks, with the launch failure of the Epsilon small rocket in October 2022, followed by an engine explosion during a test last month.
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Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I like to think this was playing until the last second before they made that decision
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