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Colonizing the Moons

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-06 16:50

Logistics aside, would it really be possible to colonize the moons of the gas giants?

It's my understanding that planets tend to have radiation belts around them.  Would the massive radiation from a planet like Jupiter make it impossible to live on its moons or are some of them outside this belt?  Or could people just live in protected domes of some sort?

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-10 21:24

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You are extremely stupid if you don't understand my point, so let's try this one point at a time.

Once you mine the rich deposits you are left with deposits which are not as rich.

This means as time goes on and you have less rich deposits left and it is more expensive to extract uranium. If remaining deposits only contain at most 1 part per million it will cost $8000 to extract a pound of uranium. If doubling the cost of uranium increases the cost of nuclear power by 5%, this will increase the cost of nuclear power by 500%.

There is an extremely low density of uranium in the oceans, but a practically infinite supply like you said. However it is more expensive to extract uranium from the oceans than from rich deposits on land. Can you understand the differences between these concepts? The amount of uranium in the ocean and the density of uranium in the ocean?

I'll stop here, give me a hint that you understand these 4 points and are not trolling.

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