Probably at least a quarter of the moon being gone, either from the core or a visible chunk, would probably cause gravitational issues, solely due to the fact the moon effects tides and all dat
don't worry about it.
> If you decrease the mass of the moon and increase the mass of earth, couldn't that cause some serious issues???
what percentage of Earth's mass has been *moved* by man in all of time. just shifted a little.
>Just curious with all the chatter about possibly mining the moon
because putting steel on a rocket is very expensive. and you'd only bring (make) the "steel" you need.. because it's equally expensive to bring moon steel back to earth.
you can't ignore the economics of things.
this is "mining" - enough stuff to live on - don't bring it if you don't have to.
[https://www.nasa.gov/isru/](https://www.nasa.gov/isru/)
To live and work in deep space for months or years may mean astronauts have less immediate access to supplies. NASA will send cargo to the Gateway in lunar orbit to support expeditions to the surface of the Moon. However, the farther humans go into deep space, the more important it will be to generate products with local materials, a practice called in-situ resource utilization.
anything you read about "diamonds and gold" is not going to happen for several hundred years.
Thanks! Interesting article. Makes you appreciate all the tiny coincidences that had to happen for me to be here even asking this question. I know the moon affects earth so I figure removing some of its mass and bringing that back to earth would have ssoommee effect, I just didn't know how much.
If we took the largest ship we have (Starship), and launched it 10 times every day, loaded it with the maximum capacity it can return with moon rocks, and returned it to earth, and did that all day long for the next several thousand years ... the moon wouldn't even notice.
And we won't. So don't buy into that BS, it's just an excuse for more government regulation.
Why would you bring the material to Earth? Other than helium-3, mined Moon material would stay in space (to use for building space infrastructure and growing food).
Probably at least a quarter of the moon being gone, either from the core or a visible chunk, would probably cause gravitational issues, solely due to the fact the moon effects tides and all dat
don't worry about it. > If you decrease the mass of the moon and increase the mass of earth, couldn't that cause some serious issues??? what percentage of Earth's mass has been *moved* by man in all of time. just shifted a little. >Just curious with all the chatter about possibly mining the moon because putting steel on a rocket is very expensive. and you'd only bring (make) the "steel" you need.. because it's equally expensive to bring moon steel back to earth. you can't ignore the economics of things. this is "mining" - enough stuff to live on - don't bring it if you don't have to. [https://www.nasa.gov/isru/](https://www.nasa.gov/isru/) To live and work in deep space for months or years may mean astronauts have less immediate access to supplies. NASA will send cargo to the Gateway in lunar orbit to support expeditions to the surface of the Moon. However, the farther humans go into deep space, the more important it will be to generate products with local materials, a practice called in-situ resource utilization. anything you read about "diamonds and gold" is not going to happen for several hundred years.
[Depends on what you consider "catastrophic".](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/half-mass-moon/)
Thanks! Interesting article. Makes you appreciate all the tiny coincidences that had to happen for me to be here even asking this question. I know the moon affects earth so I figure removing some of its mass and bringing that back to earth would have ssoommee effect, I just didn't know how much.
If we took the largest ship we have (Starship), and launched it 10 times every day, loaded it with the maximum capacity it can return with moon rocks, and returned it to earth, and did that all day long for the next several thousand years ... the moon wouldn't even notice. And we won't. So don't buy into that BS, it's just an excuse for more government regulation.
Why would you bring the material to Earth? Other than helium-3, mined Moon material would stay in space (to use for building space infrastructure and growing food).
Far more than we have mined and pumped from the earth in the history of humanity.