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Jerry Irvine — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:36:33 GMT

Not sure how new this is but . . . "At about 100 times the strength of steel and a sixth the weight, with impressive electrical conductive properties, carbon

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Re: He3 lunar mining

brooksn — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:49:10 GMT

Everett, I have not heard of a large 300 meter object in L5, I googled it but didn't find anything, any reference? I know about the Kordylewski clouds but

Re: He3 lunar mining

Everett L Williams II — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:32:50 GMT

Brooks, We are somewhat at the mercy of the solar system in regard to candidates for capture, as natural orbital objects are either in high eccentricity orbits

Re: He3 lunar mining

brooksn — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:26:39 GMT

Interesting on the He3 on asteroids, I'd agree SLS should probably be scrapped, and with today's budgets and Congress looking over everything it hopefully will

Re: He3 lunar mining

brooksn — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:14:42 GMT

Everett, I agree asteroids are the cheaper and more practical first step. I do think there is value in the moon and Mars and utilizing asteroids will make

Re: solar power satellites...again

Everett L Williams II — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:58:57 GMT

To all, I don't know whether this has been mentioned before, but there is one basic fact about solar power satellites in GSO. They are subject to eclipse by

Re: He3 lunar mining

Everett L Williams II — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:38:19 GMT

Jerry. Nothing that I have written (other than the typing mistakes) is unavailable to anyone on this planet who does not have a fixed idea of what we should be

Re: He3 lunar mining

Jerry Irvine — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:27:02 GMT

This should be in the FAQ. ... -- Jerry Irvine, Box 1242, Claremont, CA 91711 Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and

Re: He3 lunar mining

Everett L Williams II — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:13:46 GMT

Brooks, As usual, it all devolves into an economic question. There are few near term revenue sources easily harvested from space other than satellite based

He3 lunar mining

brooksn — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:31:38 GMT

On He3, I would agree there is demand, I believe most of that demand is research. Not always considered the most important endeavor, unfortuantely. I don't

Re: Existing Helium-3 market could finance lunar elevator today

Everett L Williams II — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:35:41 GMT

You are assuming that your billion dollar figure resembles reality, but it does not. You are also assuming a lunar elevator in place to transport goods to and

Re: Existing Helium-3 market could finance lunar elevator today

Charles Radley — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:22:43 GMT

... I am not sure the point of your semantic argument. He-3 is very high value, and available more cheaply from lunar resources than terrestrial resources.

Re: Existing Helium-3 market could finance lunar elevator today

Charles Radley — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:16:46 GMT

... Markets consider upside pressures and downside pressures. Helium-3 is a very unusual commodity, in that it is completely synthetic, and the Helium-3 traded