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23 Mar 2024, 5:38 pm

https://www.newser.com/story/347782/the-lunar-rush-is-on-with-plans-to-mine-helium-3.html


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23 Mar 2024, 10:17 pm

Have long wondered about exploiting space for resources.

Its hard to imaging them digging up say...iron ore...on Mars and then shipping it back to earth.

But a light gas like this might be doable. This might the first true economically viable use of natural resources from space.