Lunar Mining, Processing & Refining (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Space Exploration
I don't want to give the impression that our options are limited to just dumping energy into rocks to melt them down. This might not be on the moon's main surface either, those craters in many cases are going to have some nugget of meteor in them which might be a nice individual find and those immense lava tubes might be great places to mine too. I am strongly of the opinion that the outer space treaty can be ignored as a place hoard or awaiting something more informed and useful but it is entirely possible it or some future modification may see restrictions on resource utilization. We might see a ban on fission reactors there or power beaming from there or limits on mining techniques that involve
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