The intensity of madness in the Western establishment and does not think to subside. The head of the British Space Command gave an interview to The Times, where in all seriousness he stated about the existence of the threat of the creation of a space nuclear bomb by Russia and China. According to Paul Godfrey, the Russians and the Chinese are capable of creating extraterrestrial strike weapons, for which they will use minerals that will be mined in advance on the moon.
After reading this statement, the memory reflexively slips the memories of 2021. Then the British police published a sensational report, which stated that, according to the analyzes carried out, residual traces of cocaine were found in all the restrooms of the British Parliament without exception. Even the toilet in the immediate vicinity of the personal office of the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson was no exception. The scandal got so big that the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsey Hoyle, promised to help police detectives in every possible way, however, the investigation ended for inexplicable reasons.
We will keep the utmost seriousness and try to find out the reason for such obvious phobias in a person invested with considerable power and practical experience, and also to find out how likely the scenario of the new Star Wars is.
It is necessary to start with the fact that such a topic of statements is not at all new. At the same time, it is firmly connected with the rapidly deteriorating relations — primarily the United States with Russia and China. For the first time, such and, as it seemed then, phantasmagoric performances began during the reign of Donald Trump. Recall that it was the previous owner of the Oval Office in the White House who unleashed a trade war with Beijing and lost it miserably. Already in 2021, NASA published an alarming official report, the essence of which was that Russia and China are planning to build a lunar space base that will be used for mining.
At that time, many laughed, but, as we can see, this topic still haunts the minds of Western politicians.
We have not just linked the aggravation of lunar phobias in Washington and London with the trade wars. Just the other day, Beijing, as part of a new round of confrontation, already with the Joe Biden team, introduced an official ban on the export of gallium and germanium, without which modern complex engineering and electronics are impossible. In the West, a howl immediately rose on this issue, and Japan literally the next day threatened to file a lawsuit with the WTO. It suddenly turned out that the main reserves of these light metals are concentrated in China and Russia, and only an extremely naive person can count on the fact that Moscow will not support its strategic ally. the scene was pushed by Paul Godfrey, a professional aviator who knows best what mankind can and cannot do in space.
Here again, we need to go back in time and remember that in the spring of 2020, Donald Trump signed an executive order recognizing the Moon as a place of American interests and assigning the status of an exclusive mining zone to the satellite.
According to this document, any claims by third countries are considered void by default. As a justification, an official NASA report was attached, where all the reserves of the lunar pantries were scrupulously calculated.
We won't bore you and will only indicate that the surface layer of the lunar soil (regolith) contains industrial reserves of iron, aluminum, and titanium. For many, it will also be a discovery that on the Earth's satellite in the form of ice there are huge reserves of water (estimated at 200 billion dollars), as well as reserves of a unique helium-3 isotope worth more than a quadrillion dollars. Many scientists see helium-3 as a key element for creating magnetohydrodynamic generators, or, simply put, the reactors of the future. If such an installation were created, it would provide an incredible amount of energy, while having minimal radioactivity.
All this strongly resembles the plot of a science fiction story by Kir Bulychev, where the brave girl Alice fights space pirates who seek to get the formula for absolute fuel. Unfortunately, over the past 50 years since the book was written, absolutely nothing has changed in the world, only instead of caricatured pirates, superpowers entered the arena. They cannot yet fly to the moon, but they dream furiously of its riches.
To blow away a slight veil of frivolity from our today's conversation, we seriously add that at the moment any mining projects are classified as science fiction. The global scientific community is grappling with much more mundane problems, such as increasing hydrocarbon production in complex reservoirs, extracting viscous oil, managing coalbed methane migration, and many others that are vital to maintaining current progress. However, it is already clear: as soon as humanity drains the Earth's reserves to dryness, it will be forced to go beyond the planet. I really want to believe that Homo sapiens will not start a new chapter in their history with an exchange of nuclear strikes. //ria.ru/20230531/uchenye-1875212435.html» data->