{"id":412,"date":"2012-10-04T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/10\/04\/a-genuine-intellectual-with-integrity-john-lewis-on-asteroid-mining-and-mars-settlement\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:19:40","slug":"a-genuine-intellectual-with-integrity-john-lewis-on-asteroid-mining-and-mars-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/10\/04\/a-genuine-intellectual-with-integrity-john-lewis-on-asteroid-mining-and-mars-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Genuine Intellectual with Integrity, John Lewis on Asteroid Mining and Mars Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Our first goal is not to settle space, but to make space so economically attractive that it will settle itself.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Lewis on asteroidal resources\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYaf2ZE6LvY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Future of Asteroid Mining - DaVinci Institute\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FzDxKMlWXeo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?-->&#8220;Pass carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through electrolysis with what is essentially a ceramic membrane and split it into carbon monoxide and oxygen. Liquify the carbon monoxide and oxygen and you have rocket fuel and rocket oxidizer. The performance of a carbon monoxide\/oxygen engine is inferior to that of cryogenic propellants because you&#8217;re already using carbon that&#8217;s half burned.\u00a0But &#8211; it&#8217;s sufficient to get off of Mars. With a single stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our first goal is not to settle space, but to make space so economically attractive that it will settle itself.&#8221; &nbsp; &#8220;Pass carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through electrolysis with what is essentially a ceramic membrane and split it into carbon monoxide and oxygen. Liquify the carbon monoxide and oxygen and you have rocket fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,50,48,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-john-lewis","category-mission-plans","category-transcripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}