Deep into Space, the galaxy is shining brightly, and there are countless civilizations... When earth's destruction becomes an inescapable reality, the remain humans in Lunar Base have to find their own way to survive! Luckily, they found a huge Alien spaceship! It is the last hope of mankind, and survivors named it... Noah! Author: Ultimate Eternity ======= This is one of the very few Hard Sci Fic novels in Webnovel. Your support is so important to author. Please Vote for this novel, and add it to your collection! The goal is to make it the best Hard Sci Fic novel in Webnovel! With all your helps and supports, we can achieve it together!
Let's do the math, just 1.06 million tons of uranium resource reserves, plus the associated molybdenum ore, copper ore, etc. These are not pure things. They are mixed with various stones, and there are at least 200 to 300 million tons The ore to be dug!
This is just a resource point, and there are other iron ore, copper ore, aluminum ore, titanium ore... the miscellaneous things add up, there are at least two or three billion tons of stones to be dug!
Well, it seems that the number is quite large, but, but... this is just a small head, the real thing is - ice cubes!
Geologists have discovered four large glacial lakes near the North Pole. It is conservatively estimated that there are 3,000 cubic kilometers of ice or water. Converted to mass, that is - 300 billion tons!
There are 300 billion tons of ice to dig out!