(10-09-2013, 04:55 PM)Agmen of Eladesor Wrote: No, no dangers whatsoever... Remember, we're not talking about removing 1 million tons from the moon per year, only 70 ...
Have you studied ANY science or math whatsoever?
So you think I am some uneducated child or something?
Everyone here seems to forget how big business works. Say humanity does get to the moon and can cost effectively mine HE3, do you honestly think they would ONLY mine a certain amount each year and stop? I don't think so. The cost of maintaining a mining base on the moon (whether automated or manned) would entice whatever company sponsored said activity to mine out the fuel as fast and as much as possible. It probably would be into the millions of tons per year.
Besides, as long as the oil companies have their hands into the governments of the world, it won't come to light anyway. You'll be lucky if your great grand children see it happen.
Again, planetary body we're talking about here, even if it IS Luna.
For purposes of making you happy, let's say that they do manage to use assorted mass drivers and other things and reduce the mass of the moon by an entire 1 million tonnes per year. That's completely ignoring the minor detail about mining operations, which is the creation of waste piles. That's why, for example, they process on average 30 tons of rock to get one ounce of gold. All they do is MOVE the rock from one place to another, they don't just pick it up and throw it all away - same thing you'd have happen with H3. Gee, they find gold on the moon and only have to process 1 ton of rock to get 1 ounce of gold - that means the ton of rock (less the one ounce) is dumped back on the surface of the moon, not simply ejected into space to be lost forever. And even if it was ...
It'd probably take, oh, removal of 2% of the mass for it to have any real or appreciable effect upon the tides on earth.
7.2 x 10^19 tonnes ...Hell, let's be generous and say that you only have to remove 0.01% of that mass for it to have an effect. That's only 7.2 x 10^15 tonnes. Or, just so you grasp the size of the number here, 7,200,000,000,000,000 tonnes that they'd have to REMOVE to make a difference. At a pace of 1,000,000 tonnes per year - again, we're going to worry about something that occurs further into the future than the entire universe has been in existence, and why?
Do I think you're an uneducated child? No, I don't have to think what you've just proven.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.