I wonder if it would be practically possible to concentrate solar wind particles on a collector directly, rather than rely on hydrogen in the surface minerals? I'm imagining something like a giant magnetic funnel, possibly capable of tilting to optimize how much matter hits it, that magnetically drives solar hydrogen into waste oxygen containers to make water. Granted, I assume we're talking mostly H+ ions, rather than the more convenient H2 molecules, but those should be easier to capture with magnets, right?
Of course, building a giant magnetic funnel on the Moon is a harder task than sending an elaborate arrangement of mirrors and kilns to the Moon (or building them on site), and by the time it's practical, it might be utterly unnecessary. But if it could work on the Moon, it should probably work on Mercury, or in low Venus orbit. While Mercury and Venus synergize well to cover many of each other's weaknesses, it seems like hydrogen scarcity is the biggest common problem they'd have. If they can collect solar hydrogen, that could allow a Mercury/Venus alliance to avoid being overly dependent on the Moon, Mars, or the outer system's moons.
I find it funny that china is beggining to be a leading country when it comes to science , research and space exploration , while the lands of freedom think only about money, getting fatter and finding new genders. Much changed since cold war
I have a legitimate question now, how deep does the hydrogen exist on the surface? If you are claiming that it exists from solar wind then due to the lack of activity on the surface it would likely be quite a shallow layer.
How much hydrogen from solar wind is actually bound within the regolith? I'm sure this is the limiting factor here. That is what should be looked at quantitatively and what should be most prominently mentioned. Regarding capturing solar wind directly: This is hopeless form any reasonable practical surface area. Pretty sure about that. Whole surface of the Moon or even "only" a significant fraction of it would not be reasonable. Oxygen deserves not much attention form abundance perspective, well ok, many people might not know that oxygen is what makes most of rocky geophysical planets. Including the Moon and Ceres.
I'm all good on these videos because they're extremely to the point, Informative, interesting, and well produced. I tend to loose appeal to it when colonization is constantly brought up. Which is my opinion and it's all fair to have yours in liking the idea of space colonization but sometimes I just want information. Of course its you're channel and not asking for any changes just stating my opinion. I appreciate that the universe and think humans should explore it for information and knowledge sake but we don't even take care of the planet we evolved on and objectively have more of a negative impact than positive so the idea of spreading our effect to the rest of the universe does not appeal to me. And I personally like that otherworlds are untouched/mostly uninvolved with us as a species and just wish we would leave them alone and appreciate them for what they are rather than craving "use" "profit" and being driven by the thought that everything needs to revolve around us. For me, thats the appeal of learning about the vastness of space. Idc about profit and how some billionaires or whatever can make money off nature. It doesn't help that the word itself "colonization" has a nasty connotation and history with exploiting "new lands" for profit and while I know thats not the exact same as space colonization since no life is involved regarding ethics but the philosophy association leaves an icky taste in my mouth. We already destory so much of our own planet for profit so the idea doesn't appeal to me. I like the way the moon/mars/ and all these worlds are in their mostly natural state without human involvement and I personally don't care about profit incentive. In terms of improving human life? Maybe thats a point of interest but I think it should be kept to simply what we need rather than making massive changes to other worlds to search out as many uses as possible and alot of these resources and energy would be better put helping the earth we live on rather than terraforming another space object. I want to be clear, I'm not saying any missions involving space exploration for the sake of human benifit is bad or shouldn't be encouraged but I do want there to be a balanced representation of the mindset that these worlds are beautiful amazing and can be appreciated without revolving everything around around humans to an anthrocentric degree and many like myself may desire to see these worlds preserved in their original or natural state.
The comparison between ILRS and Artemis surface base doesn't really work. Both are tentative plans with little funding that are years out, currently working on proposals. The only defined missions to ILRS are robotic precursors and crewed bases are as vague as artemis ones. But a very good and detailed video
Its crazy to think just because two guys the bicycle shop wanted to prove that they were not usless lead to jets that are able to go faster than the speed of sound, and we have technology to determine whether another planet has water or not (I'm not exactly sure if that's why the wright brothers decided to work on the plane, thats just what ive learned)
Considering that we don't know the real impact of low or zero G on large scale manufacturing processes, not to mention long term effects on human beings, gravity issues are something you should think about addressing. People gloss over gravity like it's an non issue. But it's an issue.
We couldve started many man years ago… we simply wish to milk the earth of all its resources and economic growth until there is no other option but to expand
Idk. I like the open mindedness, but i dont think I can trust humans living on the moon. I feel like anything that goes wrong on the moon will have a negative impact on Earth lol
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I wonder if it would be practically possible to concentrate solar wind particles on a collector directly, rather than rely on hydrogen in the surface minerals? I'm imagining something like a giant magnetic funnel, possibly capable of tilting to optimize how much matter hits it, that magnetically drives solar hydrogen into waste oxygen containers to make water. Granted, I assume we're talking mostly H+ ions, rather than the more convenient H2 molecules, but those should be easier to capture with magnets, right?
Of course, building a giant magnetic funnel on the Moon is a harder task than sending an elaborate arrangement of mirrors and kilns to the Moon (or building them on site), and by the time it's practical, it might be utterly unnecessary. But if it could work on the Moon, it should probably work on Mercury, or in low Venus orbit. While Mercury and Venus synergize well to cover many of each other's weaknesses, it seems like hydrogen scarcity is the biggest common problem they'd have. If they can collect solar hydrogen, that could allow a Mercury/Venus alliance to avoid being overly dependent on the Moon, Mars, or the outer system's moons.
holy shit new water just dropped
I find it funny that china is beggining to be a leading country when it comes to science , research and space exploration , while the lands of freedom think only about money, getting fatter and finding new genders. Much changed since cold war
Now the moon just needs oil and America will be unstoppable
Bro I wanna live in a space fairing future so bad
I have a legitimate question now, how deep does the hydrogen exist on the surface? If you are claiming that it exists from solar wind then due to the lack of activity on the surface it would likely be quite a shallow layer.
How much hydrogen from solar wind is actually bound within the regolith? I'm sure this is the limiting factor here. That is what should be looked at quantitatively and what should be most prominently mentioned.
Regarding capturing solar wind directly: This is hopeless form any reasonable practical surface area. Pretty sure about that.
Whole surface of the Moon or even "only" a significant fraction of it would not be reasonable.
Oxygen deserves not much attention form abundance perspective, well ok, many people might not know that oxygen is what makes most of rocky geophysical planets. Including the Moon and Ceres.
If there's water on the moon, is it possible that lava could also be on it?
If only NASA wasn't feckless
This is true. NASA are useless grifters
Bro aspires to more than me
I'm all good on these videos because they're extremely to the point, Informative, interesting, and well produced. I tend to loose appeal to it when colonization is constantly brought up. Which is my opinion and it's all fair to have yours in liking the idea of space colonization but sometimes I just want information. Of course its you're channel and not asking for any changes just stating my opinion. I appreciate that the universe and think humans should explore it for information and knowledge sake but we don't even take care of the planet we evolved on and objectively have more of a negative impact than positive
so the idea of spreading our effect to the rest of the universe does not appeal to me. And I personally like that otherworlds are untouched/mostly uninvolved with us as a species and just wish we would leave them alone and appreciate them for what they are rather than craving "use" "profit" and being driven by the thought that everything needs to revolve around us. For me, thats the appeal of learning about the vastness of space. Idc about profit and how some billionaires or whatever can make money off nature. It doesn't help that the word itself "colonization" has a nasty connotation and history with exploiting "new lands" for profit and while I know thats not the exact same as space colonization since no life is involved regarding ethics but the philosophy association leaves an icky taste in my mouth.
We already destory so much of our own planet for profit so the idea doesn't appeal to me. I like the way the moon/mars/ and all these worlds are in their mostly natural state without human involvement and I personally don't care about profit incentive. In terms of improving human life? Maybe thats a point of interest but I think it should be kept to simply what we need rather than making massive changes to other worlds to search out as many uses as possible and alot of these resources and energy would be better put helping the earth we live on rather than terraforming another space object. I want to be clear, I'm not saying any missions involving space exploration for the sake of human benifit is bad or shouldn't be encouraged but I do want there to be a balanced representation of the mindset that these worlds are beautiful amazing and can be appreciated without revolving everything around around humans to an anthrocentric degree and many like myself may desire to see these worlds preserved in their original or natural state.
Turns put Earth also has a lot more water than we thought!
Time to terraform it
I am with you Kyplanet, I am really wish for a freaking lunar station for years. So I am really cheering for China to able make it in my lifetime
The comparison between ILRS and Artemis surface base doesn't really work. Both are tentative plans with little funding that are years out, currently working on proposals. The only defined missions to ILRS are robotic precursors and crewed bases are as vague as artemis ones. But a very good and detailed video
Its crazy to think just because two guys the bicycle shop wanted to prove that they were not usless lead to jets that are able to go faster than the speed of sound, and we have technology to determine whether another planet has water or not (I'm not exactly sure if that's why the wright brothers decided to work on the plane, thats just what ive learned)
Tommorows video:
Venus has a lot more water than we thought
/jk
Warer can be recycled so that as time goes on, you have to heat less rocks as the moon base or colony builds up a reivoir of water
What would a jupiter sized habitable planet be called
thank you for your lunar colonization videos! keep fighting the good fight against the mars colonization cope 🫡
with each discovery earth becomes less and less special
Considering that we don't know the real impact of low or zero G on large scale manufacturing processes, not to mention long term effects on human beings, gravity issues are something you should think about addressing. People gloss over gravity like it's an non issue. But it's an issue.
We couldve started many man years ago… we simply wish to milk the earth of all its resources and economic growth until there is no other option but to expand
Idk. I like the open mindedness, but i dont think I can trust humans living on the moon. I feel like anything that goes wrong on the moon will have a negative impact on Earth lol
Would moon mining have any effect on its gravity due to the slight loss of mass?