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    NASA Reveals Bold Plan to Put a Nuclear Reactor on The Moon Within 10 Years

    Great plan. It could power a base on the moon.

    NASA Reveals Bold Plan to Put a Nuclear Reactor on The Moon Within 10 Years

    The Moon awaits. After long decades in which no human being set foot on the lunar surface, we are heading back. And quite soon.

    As part of the NASA-led Artemis program, astronauts are returning to the lunar environment as soon as 2024, with a view to ultimately establishing a long-term human presence on the Moon – a place we haven't seen in person since 1972.


    To live and work on the Moon, though, astronauts will need power and plenty of it, and there's no power grid on the Moon.


    While any number of creative solutions might be able to help fix that problem, for years NASA has viewed nuclear fission as the most practical power option for future astronaut colonies, and now the space agency is taking the next step in making a nuclear reactor on the Moon a reality.


    "Plentiful energy will be key to future space exploration," says Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I support this in theory. But it just feels strange to focus so much energy on space when the situation on earth is so unstable, unjust, and unsustainable. I also worry that the US government will do what it has always done, and fuel a new arms race - only this time, in space. I feel like it's inevitable that one day everyone on earth will have to live with the knowledge that there are devastating weapon systems floating overhead and pointing down at all of us. The exploration of space could be peaceful and mutually beneficial if we had legitimate leaders. Unfortunately, the government is controlled by the criminal deep state who will use space exploration as yet another excuse to grab power and money for themselves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    I support this in theory. But it just feels strange to focus so much energy on space when the situation on earth is so unstable, unjust, and unsustainable. I also worry that the US government will do what it has always done, and fuel a new arms race - only this time, in space. I feel like it's inevitable that one day everyone on earth will have to live with the knowledge that there are devastating weapon systems floating overhead and pointing down at all of us. The exploration of space could be peaceful and mutually beneficial if we had legitimate leaders. Unfortunately, the government is controlled by the criminal deep state who will use space exploration as yet another excuse to grab power and money for themselves.
    I suspect the big players in space will be corporations.
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    The temperature variation on the moon is not going to make this easy.
    Let's go Brandon !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    I support this in theory. But it just feels strange to focus so much energy on space when the situation on earth is so unstable, unjust, and unsustainable. I also worry that the US government will do what it has always done, and fuel a new arms race - only this time, in space. I feel like it's inevitable that one day everyone on earth will have to live with the knowledge that there are devastating weapon systems floating overhead and pointing down at all of us. The exploration of space could be peaceful and mutually beneficial if we had legitimate leaders. Unfortunately, the government is controlled by the criminal deep state who will use space exploration as yet another excuse to grab power and money for themselves.
    We already live under the threat of extermination.

    I think the real rear is the threat of an accidents or malfunction. Look what Russia just did in space when they tested using a missile to destroy a satellite. They threatened the Space Station with the debris. If that was a satellite holding nuclear weapons, then what?
    Let's go Brandon !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    We already live under the threat of extermination.
    Yes, which is why I'm a proponent of de-escalation and eventual disarmament. It is insane that we all live under the specter of annihilation. There is no need for it. The peoples of America and Russia have no natural quarrel with one another. It is a conflict instigated by politicians and other corrupt actors.

    I think the real rear is the threat of an accidents or malfunction. Look what Russia just did in space when they tested using a missile to destroy a satellite. They threatened the Space Station with the debris. If that was a satellite holding nuclear weapons, then what?
    Yes, human error is always the biggest threat. It is unconscionable that an error could destroy global civilization in one afternoon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I suspect the big players in space will be corporations.
    Definitely. Some have speculated that colonization of space will open up a new era of privatization.
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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    The temperature variation on the moon is not going to make this easy.
    The habitats will have to be tight. Or underground. Good training for Mars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    Definitely. Some have speculated that colonization of space will open up a new era of privatization.

    The corporations will beat governments there in many applications outside of defense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    We already live under the threat of extermination.

    I think the real rear is the threat of an accidents or malfunction. Look what Russia just did in space when they tested using a missile to destroy a satellite. They threatened the Space Station with the debris. If that was a satellite holding nuclear weapons, then what?
    I don't are not too close. Satellites are too high for the EMPs to hit earth.
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