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nister
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posted 06 May 2006 10:57 AM
I'm heartened, but not surprised, that Bush is casting about for "ink" with this sort of sputum. The man's morphing into a human dribble-glass.That said, something big's afoot. China believes that the incredible "gaffes" attending the recent Hu visit were deliberate, and I can see their point. China and Russia have left the West's orbit, but no one wants to point that out. I think one might get some insight into what's really going on by watching what China, Japan and the States spend on their respective "moon landing" programs, and BMD. Until recently, I thought it was just a beard for space weaponization, but now I'm wondering if helium-3 is the new brass ring.
From: Barrie, On | Registered: Dec 2004
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nister
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posted 07 May 2006 01:45 PM
Naci_Sey, perhaps you recall Bush saying, weeks ago, that we will be amazed at the fuel sources in our futures. I think he was being "precious" and was alluding to helium-3.Evidence? All the lunar missions suddenly on the drawing board. The 7 billion dollar fusion project France is underwriting. Payoff? 300 billion dollars worth of energy from one shuttle loaded to the gunwales. Relevance? WW111 will ensue if one actor corners the market.
From: Barrie, On | Registered: Dec 2004
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Sven
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posted 07 May 2006 01:59 PM
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Originally posted by nister:
Naci_Sey, perhaps you recall Bush saying, weeks ago, that we will be amazed at the fuel sources in our futures. I think he was being "precious" and was alluding to helium-3.Evidence? All the lunar missions suddenly on the drawing board. The 7 billion dollar fusion project France is underwriting. Payoff? 300 billion dollars worth of energy from one shuttle loaded to the gunwales. Relevance? WW111 will ensue if one actor corners the market.
I don't know anything about helium-3 but how could the US "corner" the market? Any country (or group of countries) that want to fund a lunar mission is free to do so. And if spending 7 billion will net 300 billionn in energy, they'll be a long like of countries doing it, no? Actually, if helium-3 is a viable energy source, the best result is that oil value would drop like a rock and the OPEC countries could start drinking it.
From: Eleutherophobics of the World...Unite!!!!! | Registered: Jul 2005
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nister
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posted 07 May 2006 02:24 PM
Sven, the market is cornerable because helium-3 lays on the lunar surface, in profuse amounts.China is a very practical country; the notion that they will expend billions to put a Chinese cosmonaut on the moon strikes me as a non-starter. Japan is working on a lunar mission; why now? NASA has been floating the idea of returning to the moon: what for? I'm not smart enough to understand how the stuff works, or if indeed it will work. I just know where it is, and what it might do for whomever gets to it first.
From: Barrie, On | Registered: Dec 2004
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