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[NIAC 2023] Self-Building Radio Telescope On The Far Side of The Moon

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The Future of Aluminum on the Moon

We are actually other areas that we're looking at to build structural elements and that sort of thing out of the regular. So I have a whole host of minerals in the lunar surface. All these metals that I can extract. And fortunately, with all the oxides there I also get oxygen as a bonus,. But our laboratory tests are things are 99% pure 98% pure or something like that. Once this is proven and accepted as manufacturing alloys on the moon, I mean, you know, it's an ability to expand our horizons.

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