China Going To The Moon ?

This story makes me think of H.G. Wells and the Time Machine. Why I think of him is he actually did patent plans for a Time Machine. He was not only a terrific Author but a true genius as well. Anyway in the Time Machine mining the moon for materials causes it to break apart. Thus ending most life on earth for a long while.

When I see stories of mining on the moon, and see it possibly coming to fruition, I think of H.G. Wells and his Time Machine and wonder if some of the legends are true. That he actually got the machine he patented to work, and he wrote about our future in his stories. Yes I know that could be considered "Out There", But it is possible. Anyway that's my thought provoker of the day. Next week we'll delve into the Sumerians.

Is Helium 3 Exploitation China's Hidden Lunar Agenda?

Earlier this year, shortly after Russia claimed a vast portion of the Arctic sea floor, accelerating an international race for the natural resources as global warming opens polar access, China has announced plans to map "every inch" of the surface of the Moon and exploit the vast quantities of Helium-3 thought to lie buried in lunar rocks as part of its ambitious space-exploration program.

Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the first phase of lunar exploration, was quoted on government-sanctioned news site ChinaNews.com describing plans to collect three dimensional images of the Moon for future mining of Helium 3: "There are altogether 15 tons of helium-3 on Earth, while on the Moon, the total amount of Helium-3 can reach one to five million tons."

"Helium-3 is considered as a long-term, stable, safe, clean and cheap material for human beings to get nuclear energy through controllable nuclear fusion experiments," Ziyuan added. "If we human beings can finally use such energy material to generate electricity, then China might need 10 tons of helium-3 every year and in the world, about 100 tons of helium-3 will be needed every year."

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