edgesmash
joined 3 years ago
For those (like me) who don't know what Betteridge's Law of Headlines is: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to educate me.
I hope you don't mind me asking, but how is Bazzite locked down? I have never run any Linux as a primary desktop, though I'm relatively familiar with Linux in general from my years of general nerdiness. I recently installed bazzite on a whim on an old laptop as a first step of potentially shedding Windows (because I like games and bazzite says it's for gaming). I very limited use it seemed fine, but that's basically been installing a few things and testing a few games.
Also, got at least a B average.
Mining the moon to send materials to Earth would not be economical in the slightest because the Moon has nothing Earth doesn't. Sure, space launches from the Moon would be way easier and cheaper than from Earth (once you make the massive investment of time and money to build the space launch facilities on the Moon). But if you're talking about shipping materials to Earth from the Moon, either you need to send your freighters back from Earth to the Moon (expensive), or you make the freighters on the Moon and disassemble them on Earth, counting them as part of the haul. All that for iron, silicon, aluminum, magnesium, and titanium, stuff we can get on Earth easily enough.
The only possible economic argument for Moon mining is for a self-sustaining lunar settlement able to source space launch materials locally instead of getting them from an expensive rocket from Earth. That way, you can use the Moon as a jumping-off point to the rest of the solar system and beyond. That's a great idea for space exploration in the long term for sure. But it's a very long term plan and won't be economically feasible for a century at least.
One could make the argument that mining Earth is contributing to planetary pollution and generally fucking up our ecosystem. That's true for sure. I'm pretty sure implementing clean mining practices would be more economical than the cost of lunar mining (and that's not even accounting for the pollution caused by the freighters' reentry).
Asteroids are not a great source of minerals. They are far less dense than planets and moons, and most of what they are made of isn't super rare or valuable.
In the extremely long term, off-earth mining will probably be a good idea. But for the next 100 years or so at least, it'll be way cheaper to mine on Earth.
Most hojillionaires want to do stuff in space so they can avoid government oversight and regulation.
There really isn't that much money to be made mining the moon, though. Not considering how much it would cost to get a mining operation there.
More like unexpected Madge.
That's disturbing. Did he actually like his coffee?
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