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Mon. 11/22 - Oxygen From Moon Rocks Could Sustain Humanity for 100,000 Years

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Could lunar explorers of the future be sucking air out of moon rocks? Could all of us? Plus, a device made from household objects could expand the world’s access to vaccines. And the psychological case for decorating for the holidays as early as you want. Links: The Moon's top layer alone has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 years (The Conversation) This Cheap Device Could Expand the World’s Access to Vaccines (Scientific American) India's Limit on Syringe Exports Hobbles Global Covid Vaccinations (NY Times) What is syringe nationalism - and how is it slowing the global COVID-19 vaccine roll-out? (World Economic Forum) Why It's Actually Good to Decorate 'Early' for Christmas, According to Science (LifeHacker) POV: Does decorating for the holidays early improve mental health? (Vital Record, Texas A&M) Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages (BBC) Adele Asks Spotify to Remove ‘Shuffle’ Button From Her Albums, and It Does — Kind of (Variety) Justice At Spotify (Union of Musicians) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.7

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0:11.1

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Subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the

0:26.7

cotkey ride home for monday november 22nd 2021 i'm jackson bird today could lunar explorers of the

0:35.3

future be sucking air out of moon rocks?

0:38.5

Could all of us?

0:40.1

Plus, a device made from household objects that could expand the world's access to vaccines.

0:47.3

And the psychological case for decorating for the holidays as early as you want.

0:53.1

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

0:59.2

Humans can't breathe on the moon unassisted. We know this. The moon's atmosphere is made up mostly of

1:05.7

hydrogen, neon, and argon. No oxygen. But there is actually oxygen on the moon, and plenty of it. It's just not in the

1:14.0

atmosphere. It's not gaseous. Instead, it's hiding inside of rocks, or regalith, to be exact. John Grant,

1:22.7

incredibly a professor of soil science at Southern Cross University recently took to the conversation

1:28.7

to explain how the top layer of regolith on the moon alone has enough oxygen to sustain

1:35.3

the current population of humanity for 100,000 years. Now, if only we could all fit on the moon,

1:43.1

and figure out how to extract the oxygen from

1:46.1

the regolith in a way to actually sustain 8 billion of us, or even, I don't know, 8 of us.

1:52.3

But as you might expect, this is something that space agencies are already working on.

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