The '60 minutes' program had an Australian report on 'mining Helium3' from the moon tonight. A kilo of this stuff would make the price of gold
look like clay! (I do not mean the expence of getting it back here, but the monetary value of that kilo alone.)
No wonder China, Russia, India, Japan, the US, the European Consortium and N Korea are interested in returning to the moon. I just hope they are
civilised about it this time. Dispute over soveriegnty can get messy!
It also covered setting up the bases on the moon. At the end of the segment, the reporter asked the question, 'is there any intelligent life up there
or on Mars?'
The Australian astronaut in charge of setting up the bases on the moon replied (whilst not looking directly at the reporter but instead averting his
eyes to his shoes!)
"No....but that does not mean there is no intelligent life elsewhere in the universe!"
Now, I know a little bit about body language and this guys body screamed that he was not telling the whole truth!
I must apologise for not taping it and downloading it etc, but I am not that tech savvy, plus I have a clunker of a pc,
(one up from the commodore 64 I think! :lol
Way to go guys, the media are starting to get drip fed by the look of it!
Yay! I got it!
sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au...
HARRISON SCHMITT: Those two things - no radioactivity and no waste being produced at all - and also the high efficiency of conversion to
electricity, give it a tremendous advantage over any other - practically any other - so-called nuclear fuel source. For example, this is... if you
have helium-3 in the same mass as this rock, same weight - say a kilogram - that would be worth, oh, about $14 million in coal, relative to
coal.
[edit on 3-12-2007 by Havalon]