It’s important to remember history so it does not repeat itself, that is, within the right context. On CBS Mornings Plus, hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Adriana Diaz kept pushing the delusional thought that there could be people “trying to colonize” the moon in the style of European colonization of the global south. No, that was not a joke.
Astrophysicist and author of Just Visiting This Planet, Neil deGrasse Tyson, was invited on the show to give his input regarding President Trump’s administration planning to but a nuclear reactor on the moon within the next five years. Tyson gave a reality check for the power behind the reactor and quell fears:
It’s a small reactor. I mean, the word “nuke” spooks everybody, but this reactor could sustain 50 hairdryers. That’s about it, 100 kilowatts...If we have plans to set up a colony anywhere, you’d want an energy source.
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