Anyone fancy a job as an Ice Miner

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Digit
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15 years ago

NASA have just made the latest in a series of experiments to find water on the moon. Granted the results are not yet known yet, BUT, it could be a good time to send in your CV. If they find water they may want miners to get it. If they fail they may want explorers to seek it. Either way difficult to improve on a man with a shovel. Any takers??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299118.stm

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derrickman
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15 years ago

ice mining, or cutting, used to be practiced in the US and Canada - cut big blocks and store them in ice-houses for use during the summer.

bbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

ttxela
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15 years ago

Weren't the Russians seriously looking at mining Helium-3 on the moon?

Probably worth a bit more than water whilst you're up there with a shovel........ 🙂

carnkie
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15 years ago

"derrickman" wrote:
ice mining, or cutting, used to be practiced in the US and Canada - cut big blocks and store them in ice-houses for use during the summer.

bbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

And their ice houses came in all shapes and sizes.

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blondin
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15 years ago

there is a drawing on the net(American patents online I think) of NASA`s plan to mine the moon in the sixties with a cableway/dragline combination....serious!Cant remember were I stumbled on it exactly but its out there somewere.

carnkie
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15 years ago

"ttxela" wrote:
Weren't the Russians seriously looking at mining Helium-3 on the moon?

Probably worth a bit more than water whilst you're up there with a shovel........ 🙂

And the Chinese of course. http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2006/12/72276

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

derrickman
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15 years ago

"carnkie" wrote:

"ttxela" wrote:
Weren't the Russians seriously looking at mining Helium-3 on the moon?

Probably worth a bit more than water whilst you're up there with a shovel........ 🙂

And the Chinese of course. http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2006/12/72276

they all stand on each others' shoulders, and the one at the top steps across..

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

stevem
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15 years ago

"Anyone fancy a job as an Ice Miner"

I would like to be a miner...but do I have to be nice!

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