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The Moon

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Helium Three

The moon is starting to change color from a deep, deep reddy orange to something of it lighter. You can see it's its gaining that kind of silver lustre yes but i hope that we treasure it rather than trash it. In the regulith of the moon,. this stuff called helium three, which is o fusion material. Theres not much of it on earth. I think a ton of helium three, if you could produce a ton, is worth four billion poundsand it's te stated aim of the chinese lunar missions to mine helium three. It's an issue of who owns the moon. And so our mind was always on, how do we get here, do our

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