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ROBOTS ARE THE FUTURE
Oct. 1st, 2006 07:35 pmApparently some people think the answer to the looming energy crisis lies in utilisation of nuclear energy. Nay-sayers of this plan state that the earth only has enough fissile material to fuel our needs (lets face it, needs) for the next hundred or so years were we to completely switch over tomorrow.
But... what about other stellar objects? Asteroids and planets within our solar system we know contain the substances needed for reactors?
Oh those are impossible to get to, the nay-sayers proclaim. We'll either have to admit this whole technology thing was a bunch of hooey and go back to muscle power (we're talking horse-drawn buggies and churning butter by hand).
But what about robotics? Robot miners, launched at humanly impossible speeds to locations within our solar system, strip-mining these places intensely [face it, nobody wants to go there. If they did there would be people there by now! (everyone with a counter-argument to that please shut the hell up)] and flying HUGE hunks of ore to be crash-landed onto the moon.
BOOM! Thats the sound the landings would make if there were any atmosphere on the dark side of our satellite... and then the logistically interesting part where ore is refined in solar-powered blast furnaces then put into little feathered spacecraft, magnetically launched from the moon to float down and land on runways on earth.
Like pizza delivery, for radioactive ores! Instead of teenage employees, robots!
But... what about other stellar objects? Asteroids and planets within our solar system we know contain the substances needed for reactors?
Oh those are impossible to get to, the nay-sayers proclaim. We'll either have to admit this whole technology thing was a bunch of hooey and go back to muscle power (we're talking horse-drawn buggies and churning butter by hand).
But what about robotics? Robot miners, launched at humanly impossible speeds to locations within our solar system, strip-mining these places intensely [face it, nobody wants to go there. If they did there would be people there by now! (everyone with a counter-argument to that please shut the hell up)] and flying HUGE hunks of ore to be crash-landed onto the moon.
BOOM! Thats the sound the landings would make if there were any atmosphere on the dark side of our satellite... and then the logistically interesting part where ore is refined in solar-powered blast furnaces then put into little feathered spacecraft, magnetically launched from the moon to float down and land on runways on earth.
Like pizza delivery, for radioactive ores! Instead of teenage employees, robots!
