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[NEWS] nasa eyes urstar fish for missions in 2030s
Nonnel:
Very neat. I'm always down to learn more about our Solar System and what we can do with it.
--- Quote from: thegoodperry on June 18, 2017, 12:13:56 PM ---the methane we harvest from urstar fish could be used for kitchen stoves and that's it. It's nowhere near complex enough to make a fuel that cars can run on
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You don't gotta comment if you have no idea what you're talking about
Conan:
[news] tail butt plug found in urstar fish probe prior to launch
Juncoph:
--- Quote from: thegoodperry on June 18, 2017, 12:13:56 PM ---the methane we harvest from urstar fish could be used for kitchen stoves and that's it. It's nowhere near complex enough to make a fuel that cars can run on
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_vehicle
literally anything that's combustible can be made into a fuel
combustible fluids are inherently excellent fuels because they can be fed by fuel lines
even gaseous hydrogen - the simplest molecule in the universe - can and has been used in internal combustion engines. it was actually used in some of the first ICE prototypes.
anyway, space exploration is only a waste of money if scientific progress in general is a waste of money.
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--- Quote from: thegoodperry on June 18, 2017, 11:30:34 AM ---that's just going to be a waste of money.
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lolol
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Juncoph on June 18, 2017, 02:42:47 PM ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_vehicle
literally anything that's combustible can be made into a fuel
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it's also virtually impossible, in terms of engineering, to make a vehicle that goes to Urstar fish and captures methane from the atmosphere, escapes the planet's gravity well, and then returns back to Earth, having gathered enough fuel to make the entire trip economically worthwhile.
asteroid mining and stuff seems cool but I have virtually no faith that we will ever see commercial resource gathering in space. It is simply too expensive to put things in space, and there's no known way to take things super heavy and return them to the surface without them exploding.