unless they sign up for a year of service, so that they can play when all the bugs are fixed and the vehicles are completed, and they find out that it is $10 a month.
The two are completely unrelated. There's a lot more interest in antimatter propulsion then there is in moon bases, so its advancement has gone much further than that permanent moon bases. Consider what we would do with a permanent moon base compared to what we would do with an antimatter rocket capable of traveling to other star systems within our lifetime.
It's not that we can't produce it more efficiently, but that we don't. Fermilab and CERN produce the antimatter in order to study its properties, not to store mass quantities for some potential use. Right now, the use is simply not there, so not much work has been done in increasing production efficiency. There are several technologies already in existence now (recycling rings and so on) that could boost efficiency by an order of magnitude at least, there's just no reason to produce that much antimatter yet, so we don't.
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unless they sign up for a year of service, so that they can play when all the bugs are fixed and the vehicles are completed, and they find out that it is $10 a month.
The two are completely unrelated. There's a lot more interest in antimatter propulsion then there is in moon bases, so its advancement has gone much further than that permanent moon bases. Consider what we would do with a permanent moon base compared to what we would do with an antimatter rocket capable of traveling to other star systems within our lifetime.
It's not that we can't produce it more efficiently, but that we don't. Fermilab and CERN produce the antimatter in order to study its properties, not to store mass quantities for some potential use. Right now, the use is simply not there, so not much work has been done in increasing production efficiency. There are several technologies already in existence now (recycling rings and so on) that could boost efficiency by an order of magnitude at least, there's just no reason to produce that much antimatter yet, so we don't.