Mining on the Moon? L'exploitation minière sur la lune ?


Thoughts in Darrick Wood by Trevor Morgan 11 April 2020 (traduction française ci-dessous)

I often look up to the moon and wonder what it was like to go there. Twelve astronauts flew to the moon without landing. Twelve astronauts landed on the moon.

It would have been a strange and stimulating experience to walk on the moon. The astronauts could only see the moon through the porthole of their spaceship or through the visor of their spacesuit.
They could not smell the moon as they were constantly surrounded by an artificial environment. They could not taste the moon or touch it because they were ensconced within a space suit. They could not hear the moon as it is airless and anyway, they were constantly hearing voices or white noise hissing from their communication equipment. Also, they would have heard their own breathing. All in all, it would have been a limiting sensory experience.

They would, however, have directly experienced gravity but at one sixth of the strength on earth.

The moon is an alien place where astronauts experience an environment which has to be artificially maintained. It makes me wonder how long the astronauts could have lived on the moon without going mad, even if they had unlimited supplies. The loneliness and constant concern that they could be stranded without rescue if a meteorite were to hit them, or if they were dangerously irradiated with rays from the sun. The moon is a completely inhospitable place where human beings do not really belong. Equally, the moon does not belong to us.

It is my view that the moon and other celestial bodies should only be populated temporarily by scientists. There is no need to mine the moon or to pollute it and any notion to exploit it for commercial purpose is bonkers. Darrick wood is telling me that it is time for a rethink.

https://www.mining-technology.com/features/trump-wants-us-companies-to-mine-the-moon/






Pensées dans Darrick Wood par Trevor Morgan 11 avril 2020

Je lève souvent les yeux vers la lune et je me demande ce que c'était que d'y aller. Douze astronautes ont volé vers la lune sans atterrir. Douze astronautes y ont atterri.

Marcher sur la lune aurait été une expérience étrange et stimulante. Les astronautes ne pouvaient voir la lune qu’à travers le hublot de leur vaisseau spatial ou à travers la visière de leur combinaison spatiale.Ils ne pouvaient pas sentir la lune car ils étaient constamment entourés d'un environnement artificiel. Ils ne pouvaient pas goûter la lune ou la toucher parce qu'ils étaient installés dans une combinaison spatiale. Ils ne pouvaient pas entendre la lune car elle est sans air et de toute façon, ils entendaient constamment des voix ou des bruits blancs siffler de leur équipement de communication. De plus, ils auraient entendu leur propre respiration. Dans l'ensemble, cela aurait été une expérience sensorielle limitante.

Ils auraient, cependant, directement éprouvé la gravité, mais à un sixième de la force sur la terre.

La lune est un lieu extraterrestre où les astronautes expérimentent un environnement qui doit être artificiellement entretenu. Je me demande combien de temps les astronautes ont pu vivre sur la lune sans devenir fous, même s’ils avaient des réserves illimitées. La solitude et le souci constant qu'ils pourraient être bloqués sans sauvetage si une météorite venait à les frapper, ou s'ils étaient dangereusement irradiés par les rayons du soleil. La lune est un endroit totalement inhospitalier où les êtres humains n'appartiennent pas vraiment. De même, la lune ne nous appartient pas.

Je suis d’avis que la lune et les autres corps célestes ne devraient être peuplés que temporairement par des scientifiques. Il n’est pas nécessaire d’exploiter la lune ou de la polluer et toute idée de l’exploiter à des fins commerciales est insensée. Darrick Wood me dit qu’il est temps de repenser.

https://www.ouest-france.fr/monde/etats-unis/l-espace-n-appartient-personne-trump-veut-se-l-approprier-6803231



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