At 7.35e22 kg, our moon is definitely a heavy sucker that’s perhaps only 0.1% hollow as is. However, besides our desperate need of interactive shade for geoengineering our GW and AGW problems away, Earth can always use minerals and precious metals or rear-earths, and what could possibly be more rare than our paramagnetic moon.
So, before and/or during the relocation process of moving our moon out to Earth L1, we should dig into and mine out that moon to the tune of at least extracting 10%, leaving us with a 6.615e22 kg moon that’s nicely hollowed out below that extremely thick and highly protective crust. This excavation process leaves us with an extra 2.5e19 m3 of interior vacant space, in addition to all that’s otherwise naturally hollow about our moon. Giving everyone a volume of 1e9 m3 or one km3 is enough to accommodate 25 billion of us humans in relative safety (in some ways better than anyplace on Earth could provide). I’m certain that others here can muster up alternatives and/or suggest better utilizations, but just to kick this topic up a notch or two is what I’ve intended by suggesting this excavation process that offers many advantages besides providing most of the tethered tug mass that’s going to gradually pull the moon further away from Earth. Just tunneling in at 12 meters through 60 km of fused paramagnetic basalt crust is going to be worth excavating 21e6 tonnes. http://translate.google.com/# Brad Guth, Brad_Guth, Brad.Guth, BradGuth, BG / “Guth Usenet” On Feb 5, 10:22 am, BradGuth <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not as hard as you might think, and we'd get up to 3.5% shade, > although that could easily be adjusted to suit, and there are a few > other benefits besides terrific job security for at least a century. > > http://translate.google.com/# > Brad Guth, Brad_Guth, Brad.Guth, BradGuth, BG / “Guth Usenet” -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
