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minus-squarej4k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·1 month agoWhy do you think the moon will be relevant once the first m-type astroid is mined?
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoWe don’t really have a lot of science on low gravity environments. We know a lot about what happens in 1 g. We’re starting to understand a bunch about 0 g. We have almost no information about 1/6th g. The capitalist notion of making money on the moon is still a pipe dream, but the science we can gain by having a lab there is undeniable.
minus-squarej4k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoWe can build centrifugal gravity at several scales with far less engineering unknowns and without tethering ourselves to a gravity prison.
Why do you think the moon will be relevant once the first m-type astroid is mined?
We don’t really have a lot of science on low gravity environments.
We know a lot about what happens in 1 g. We’re starting to understand a bunch about 0 g. We have almost no information about 1/6th g.
The capitalist notion of making money on the moon is still a pipe dream, but the science we can gain by having a lab there is undeniable.
We can build centrifugal gravity at several scales with far less engineering unknowns and without tethering ourselves to a gravity prison.