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- Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Mars Colony financing
- Replies: 78
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You might be interested in this thread over an NASA spaceflight forum. http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27041.0 It discusses the unexpected measurement from the LCROSS mission of high concentrations of gold in the plume blasted out of the crater. They measured on the order of 1.6% c...
- Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:09 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: May be an interesting place to send a space probe some day
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13049
The more NEA's there are, the more resources to build O'neill style space colonies, whenever they come into vogue. Exactly! I still do not quite understand why everybody is so dedicated about colonizing planets... The asteroids offer many thousands of times more surface area and resources than the ...