Moon for Sale!!!!

Even before i say anything let me say that the title is not something which i came up with. it was the title of a program.. documentary kind of thing and the title did really catch my attention. So i thought hmmmm is Moon for sale.. and if yes what would be the cost of it. At the end of program i did believe that Moon is really for sale and price is more than you can imagine.

I am not sure about the number of people who have made it to moon..and was lazy to google it as well. Of the limited knowledge that i have i believe that the americans invested so much time, money and resources to put their flag on moon is to beat the growing intelligence of the russians in the same field. It was then Neil armstrong said those amazing words "one man step for human.. one big leap for mankind" or something like that.

so why is moon for sale after the americans achieved what they wanted to?? well there is a little physics to it. it is for energy and the vast resource for producing it. We all know about fission and fusion methods for producing energy so wont delve much upon it. Fusion is more powerful than fission and when we say fusion we talk about fusion of hydrogen. But that needs high temperatures.. beyond our imagination. Alternatively there is helium which is having a composition very close to hydrogen. so the same release of neutrons can be achieved in different ways. But helium is a radioactive waste and is available in very little quantity. well little quantity on earth that is. On moon Helium is abundantly available and thats where everyone's interests lies in.

So that question being answered it still poses the questions of how to get helium from moon and send it to earth and then produce energy out of it. well humans know how to get energy out of helium and have been experimenting with it already but how to get helium from moon?? Inhospitable conditions on moon is just one aspect of problem. we will need someone to be there for months.. years may be and excavate Helium from moon. Then there is the question of supporting the sustenance of humans at those conditions.

Anyone would have given up just looking at the above problems but no not us humans. Americans have even tried to create those situations on earth.. well actually under water. they have named it Nemo :) Humans are trained to live there for months at end at one sixth the gravity.

It is a testimony to the humans untiring efforts to achieve the impossible and i am convinced that humans will manage to achieve this formidable, nearly impossible task as well. Maybe not in my lifetime but in my children's lifetime ( if i have that is :) ) there will be people talking about colonization of moon and kids studying about maps on moon belonging to their nations. Its that difficulty of the task which keeps us going.. isn't it. and i am sure we humans will solve this one as any other.

So keen on watching the video? no problem.. google to the rescue... you can watch it below and down below that :). wish our indian government will watch it and encourage the ISRO's attempts to have an indian there as well.





Enjoy!!!!