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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
If humans didn't focus so much resources on war, we could have had the moon populated by now and on the way to changing the atmosphere on mars to a breathable one.
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Just to add to that off the wall thought, I saw this documentary about future energy systems and there is a new space race brewing, and its a result of the desire to replace fossil fuels. Fussion has supposedly been achieved in labs in both the United States and Russia, using helium3. The moon has an incredible amount of helium3 stored in the rocks on its surface, enough to power all of our planet for the next 100,000 years. Both the Americans and the Russians are supposedly racing to develop systems to get to the moon, mine the helium3, and ship it back to earth. They say that it is very viable and they hope to start production in the next decade. Interesting subject for discussion but I'm skeptical on this one.