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The Skeptics Guide #859 - Dec 25 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Moon's Surface Collects Helium Three

We're actually talking about putting people on the moon, were likely most of us are going to be able to see them persistently. And if they see the gorona mass ejection, and it hits the earth and doesn't hit them? That's like that horrifying image. Make more the lights going out across the earth right now. Longer term, though, just as one last thing is, yo, the moon's surface has a lot of helium three, because it gets from the solar wind. There is a theoretical fusion cycle based upon helium threewhi. So the future may be mining helium three for fusion reactors, not just on the moon,. but even bringing it back

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