[Greenbuilding] Outer Space: Huh ? No water ? Oh oh. (was Re: Gaviotas)

[Corwyn]

On 2/19/2011 8:31 PM, Johannes Martinez wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 20:12 -0500, Corwyn wrote:
>
>> And more to the point, there is nowhere worth traveling.
>
> So untrue.  Both Saturn and Jupiter have moons where it basically rains
> hydrocarbons.
> That's way more incentive to the deep corporate pockets (oil companies)
> than any sort of scientific endeavor.

1) Mining hydrocarbons probably doesn't require human presence.  So it 
isn't a place PEOPLE are going to want to be.

2) What is the energy balance on that?  If we found GOLD in massive 
quantities, it wouldn't be economical to go get it.

Thank You Kindly,

Corwyn

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