Method of extracting oxygen from lunar soil successfully tested in low gravity - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Fables;17563367]I'd honestly rather have a fucking private company do this then NASA.[/QUOTE] Yeah. A private moon-traveling company. Find one. Just do it.

So let me get this strait, were SIFTING oxygen out of the soil??!?!

[QUOTE=blackXmesa66;17595277]Yeah. A private moon-traveling company. Find one. Just do it.[/QUOTE] I'll start one from my mom's basement right now.

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;17596082]So let me get this strait, were SIFTING oxygen out of the soil??!?![/QUOTE] No. [quote]The wanted particles would then be blown into a reactor with hydrogen and heated to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. At this time, the oxygen released from the oxides would attach to the hydrogen and be collected.[/quote] [editline]06:27AM[/editline] [QUOTE=blackXmesa66;17595277]Yeah. A private moon-traveling company. Find one. Just do it.[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_tourism_companies]I'm sure any of these companies would jump at the opportunity to go to the moon[/url]

[QUOTE=The mouse;17563446]interestingly enough Mars and Venus have both[/QUOTE] AActually mars doesnt have a magnetic field, and as such thats why its dead, the solar winds were able to just rip the atmosphere away. [editline]01:37PM[/editline] [QUOTE=hypno-toad;17563834]At this point it may just be more particle to wait 20-50 years until nanobot technology is advanced enough that they can self replicate; so nanobots could be made to do the same thing. At this point the ammount of time, money and effort needed to actually get a device significantly large enough to mars to try and do anything with it would be totally out of the question. Makes a bit more sense for the moon, but still...[/QUOTE] Not a chance, self replicating nano bots scare the shit outta me, the grey goo and all that.

[QUOTE=bravehat;17598660] Not a chance, self replicating nano bots scare the shit outta me, the grey goo and all that.[/QUOTE] Don't worry, there will be an off button. I'm hoping to pursue nanotechnology as a career path, so I'll keep your paranoia in mind when designing shit :D

[QUOTE=KaIibos;17602495]Don't worry, there will be an off button. I'm hoping to pursue nanotechnology as a career path, so I'll keep your paranoia in mind when designing shit :D[/QUOTE] You damn well better keep.

[QUOTE=Beafman;17564765][b]Self-replicating nanobots would at some point be created so fast that it would approach the speed of light.[/b] Why not make several more robots ... :bravo2:[/QUOTE] It's physically impossible for something to be "produced" at the speed of light. Speed of light implies movement, while in the context you are referring to, "speed" represents the rate at which something is being built, which cannot exceed the speed of light. If you have, say, ... a quadrillion (?) nanobots in a big clump, and they all replicate themselves at the same time, that would not break the speed of light. The only possible way that the speed of light could be approached when self-replicating nano-bots are concerned is the speed at which the bots move to aquire resources to replicate themselves (the race to find food).

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;17605632]It's physically impossible for something to be "produced" at the speed of light. Speed of light implies movement, while in the context you are referring to, "speed" represents the rate at which something is being built, which cannot exceed the speed of light. If you have, say, ... a quadrillion (?) nanobots in a big clump, and they all replicate themselves at the same time, that would not break the speed of light. The only possible way that the speed of light could be approached when self-replicating nano-bots are concerned is the speed at which the bots move to aquire resources to replicate themselves (the race to find food).[/QUOTE] The only time I've heard anything like what he's suggesting is when I was watching a video about it. Not to put words in his mouth but he might mean: You send a nanobot to various moons around nearby stars. They set up a factory and start copying themselves, and each copy then shoots off to another moon. The nanobots can effectively travel at the speed of light because they are so tiny that ion drives are very practical to accelerate them constantly to 99.9% the speed of light. Every time a new bot lands on a moon and starts replicating itself, it exponentially increases the operation. Eventually you'll have trillions of nanobots expanding outwards in every direction at the speed of light (like a sphere).