Yes, but as I said earlier, I believe finding the lunar water to stick with Al or Mg dust in a tube is going to be a lot harder than finding the Al / Mg. And...
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mtmorganism
May 20, 2013 12:02 am
Ya gotta have oxy to oxidize , water is convenient, because you can use it to pack the al/mg into the thruster body, and not have to handle turbo pumps, or...
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mtmorganism
May 19, 2013 11:58 pm
That hyperdrive you want to use, causes a lot of damage when it drops back into realspace ...
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Ueli Scheuermeier
uscheuermeier
May 19, 2013 6:50 am
Right, so if I get this right, we got to "make" water first on the Moon (or possibly LOX) before we can get any push out of Aluminium or Magnesium, no matter...
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mtmorganism
May 18, 2013 10:46 pm
that is slurry engines. Required for starting/stopping, but not easily manufactured on-site. The Al/Mg mix of just sifted regolith contains all those nano iron...
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mtmorganism
May 18, 2013 10:01 pm
A new meteorite impact on the moon, will give us new regolith spectra http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/moon-explosion/ Im sure you Brits have seen...
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mtmorganism
May 18, 2013 8:06 pm
The US national 3D center is pretty sad http://www.vizseek.com/vizspace/ListOpps.aspx?type=prod&SS=2&uid=3d732197-1476-4f95-aa71-c9832c92c372 and the...
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Ueli Scheuermeier
uscheuermeier
May 18, 2013 6:19 pm
All right Morgan, This makes it a lot clearer. Most notable is that it's not as easy as it looked: We can't simply sift the lunar regolith for Al and Mg and...
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mtmorganism
May 18, 2013 8:08 am
Electron beam addative http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A10XEZvkgbY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7--ZWPVVdQ and a full lecture series from India on the...
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mtmorganism
May 18, 2013 4:53 am
I havn't seen this version before. Is based on a 5 axis CNC, but uses a laser and a powder sprayer to build up a melt pool, and inject the powder into it. ...
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mtmorganism
May 18, 2013 12:18 am
I thought the nasa report in the first post was the Al tests they had done earlier, with the isp included. Nasa technical server has been taken off-line for...
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mtmorganism
May 18, 2013 12:13 am
saturns ufo shaped moons, and that doesn't even count Hyperion.. ...
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Ueli Scheuermeier
uscheuermeier
May 16, 2013 7:54 am
Morgan, Can you please be more specific? "The Nasa report has the isp, can be pretty good with water". Of course there are lots of reports about ISPs. We know...
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mtmorganism
May 15, 2013 10:23 pm
The reason there is quantum physics, and how classical fits in http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n5/full/ncomms2821.html...
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mtmorganism
May 15, 2013 9:54 pm
and using iron on paper as a catalyst, you can make hi temp , foldable electronics. Interestingly, using this technique allows iron to melt at 800, instead of...
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mtmorganism
May 15, 2013 9:26 pm
looks like the plasma may expand more than thought, giving more kick, and a density wave. Reason to drill deeper rather than broadly ...
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mtmorganism
May 15, 2013 9:21 pm
Looks like the METs will be able to cut diamond, by floating graphene in the water, like sandblasting. ...
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mtmorganism
May 15, 2013 9:19 pm
The nasa report has the isp, can be pretty good with water. To get the material off Luna, it is easiest to go ahead and take a sintering 3D printer there, and...
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Ueli Scheuermeier
uscheuermeier
May 14, 2013 4:47 am
Morgan, Lets not yet worry about sintering or 3D printing or anything else beyond the structural requirements for those Al/Mg boosters. Let's think of strap-on...
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mtmorganism
May 14, 2013 2:42 am
it needs a match, is a solid rocket booster. best for lifting out of Luna grav well, or boosting to Earth LEO. You can take the Al/Mg dust to LEO to use as...
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mtmorganism
May 14, 2013 2:15 am
stand alone antenna style subsurface mapping, magnetic mapping http://www.zonge.com/ there is a pdf on here somewhere......
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Ueli Scheuermeier
uscheuermeier
May 13, 2013 8:20 pm
Wait Morgan, If we want to explore this Moon angle on Al/Mg, then first things first: Got to have an early market for that stuff in LEO. And that early market...
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mtmorganism
May 13, 2013 8:11 pm
Planetary impact meeting happened, here is an article with an audio link ...
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mtmorganism
May 13, 2013 7:53 pm
As i pointed out in my last moon-first rant... All you need are steel tubes to use as engine casings, bolt on rocket bells, a sifter for sizing the regolith,...
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mtmorganism
May 13, 2013 7:28 pm
//SLS and politics http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/05/12/space-policy-viewed-through-an-exoplanetary-lens/ ISS usage statistics ...
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Ueli Scheuermeier
uscheuermeier
May 12, 2013 4:46 am
Okay Morgan, You're making the best economic case for a lunar operation I've yet come across. The first target I guess would be to get Al/Mg to LEO that is a...
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mtmorganism
May 11, 2013 10:26 pm
In case you arn't on the mailing list Everyone on the Planetary Team knows the moment. The moment when we knew our calling was to break boundaries and push...
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mtmorganism
May 11, 2013 10:23 pm
got utube blocked, but... Luna's gold is water, and Al\Mg. You can make an aluminum rocket fuel with that, without waiting the 3-4 years it is going to take to...
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Ueli Scheuermeier
uscheuermeier
May 11, 2013 4:10 pm
Ah Martha, Hey, good to see you on the screen. You're definitely on the list until and unless you unsubscribe. The Aldrin cycler…… You know, I keep saying...
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Martha Adams
mhada@...
May 11, 2013 3:34 pm
... =============================================== Hi, Ueli. If there's any question about it, I'd like to stay on your mailing list. I was just looking at...
