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Japan eyes using moon water as fuel for space exploration in 2030s

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With all the stuff this year regarding the pandemic and other events, it’s refreshing to see news like this. While it’s definitely important to take care of our current issues, we also need to look forward, that’ll give us something to literally look forward to.

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The idea of breaking down the Moon's water into oxygen and hydrogen sounds brilliant. Not so sure about the idea of hopping around the surface of the moon. Is it worth the risks involved?

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Stan Meyers would be jumping up and down in is grave with this news.

https://youtu.be/GFIlXaABU54.

Then they decided to kill him.

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. . . brings new meaning to "moon viewing party".

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How about first some wage increases for the younger employees, something to eat for shoplifting elder lies or some electric wheelchair for all disabled people that wish one? But no, go on throwing the money out of the window into a senseless and useless virtual nothing...

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How about first some wage increases for the younger employees, something to eat for shoplifting elder lies or some electric wheelchair for all disabled people that wish one? But no, go on throwing the money out of the window into a senseless and useless virtual nothing...

Mankind has to become a multi-planet species if it is to survive. At some point in the future as the Sun consumes its hydrogen it will become hotter and hotter. Eventually the Earth will be to hot to inhabit. Later on as the last hydrogen is consumed the Sun will balloon into a red giant, consuming all four inner planets as it's diameter expands beyond the current orbit of Mars. Unless mankind finds a way to inhabit other plants it is doomed to die with the Earth. There is no time like the present to start learning how to conduct long space flights and live on alien worlds.

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Japan's space agency said Monday it aims to engage from around the mid-2030s in lunar exploration using hydrogen generated by water extracted from the moon's ice deposits as fuel.

Keep a sharp lookout for those flying pigs.

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I have thought about this for a long time even before Elon musk is to use a satellite system like Elon Musk made to circle the globe.

      I have mentioned it to him on his Twitter and another contest about getting an assessment of my idea.

No one has returned Emails yet, 

      well once you put up the satellites of pentagons or hexagons orbiting the moon.       

Surrounded by pentagons or hexagons aligned in close orbit, made of plastic from the piles of it on earth, somehow perhaps pressed together then set in orbit to hold in an a rudimentary atmosphere. Much more manageable than a Dysons sphere.

 At some point in time a hexagon or pentagon satellite will malfunction, once it crashes into surface could melt it so to contain the micro dust hazard, and even use the satellite to focus suns rays to trace out areas for drones on surface to build habitats, and make more efficient solar power on moon and on earth. I read a report of 2 women in Japanese organic chemistry that have made a fungus that eats plastic, that later on could be used to eat the plastic making more air. 

maybe make an actual planet like from Nausicaa of the valley of the wind. but with the jungle actually be making the moon inhabitable

maybe Do you like my idea ?

I do not have the graphics but only vivid ideas in my mind I so love japan and the world and sciences of the world and love the idea of breathing air on the moon.

children could play up there. in our life time.

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