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Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

There are resources on the moon. Like helium which the sources on Earth are slowly depleting because helium that gets released in to the air is basically gone, it floats up to the upper layers of the atmosphere and some atoms will eventually get knocked into space and leave Earth’s gravity. Also some scientific experiments require low gravity. Currently they are doing them on the ISS or in a reduced-gravity aircraft. In a moon base you can do a lot more science with more people.

Also some people that are researching lab grown organs think that in order to grow an entire organ that it has to be done in low gravity. So imagine in the future we could have a moon base that grows organs for thousands of people at a time.

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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
But without all the helium the earth will fall down.

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- janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Wake up, sheeple! The government is trying to bring down the moon!
  
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87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

So imagine in the future we could have a moon base that grows organs for thousands of people at a time.

Read: thousands of billionaires at a time

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skibidi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If organs can’t grow in Earth gravity then what the fuck am I

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- SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You didn’t build your full grown adult organs cell by cell in a vat. Like if they ever able to make organs they are more like constructing them cell by cell then growing them. Growing them would be probably too slow anyway. Not everyone can wait 15 years for a new heart.
  
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  - skibidi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They were grown cell by cell in a fleshy vat
    
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- 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  A fleshy fucking marvel, bitch
  
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- elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  An organ that can type?
  
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

helium which the sources on Earth are slowly depleting because helium that gets released in to the air is basically gone

so we fill kids balloons with it.

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personalhel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
he extration does nor make sense. He-3 extraction might.

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