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The Space Force has spoken out after an alarm was raised over reported explosives at a key US facility.
According to a local report by KDVR, emergency officials attended the base in Aurora, Colorado, after it was reported that there were potential explosives at the location.
This took place on December 29 when a call relating to Buckley Space Force base was made.
Specifically, officials were alerted to a two-bay garage with construction equipment at the property.
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However, luckily there were no explosives found at the site, with officials announcing that ‘no threat was found’.
The US Space Force was established in 2019 and is the sixth branch of the US Armed Forces.
Its role is to address threats in space, with its roots tracing all the way back to the Cold War.
In other space news, China made an alarming announcement last year when the country revealed its plans to build a nuclear plant on the moon.
It was revealed by the nation that it intends to build the plant in order to support a permanent research station that China hopes to construct alongside Russia.
And bizarrely, the site that has been mapped out for these plans are on the moon.
This is part of the country’s Chang’e-8 mission, which has been scheduled for 2028, where China also hopes to land astronauts on the lunar surface by 2030 and eventually construct a permanently manned base.
In a presentation led by the chief engineer of the Chang’e-8 mission, Pei Zhaoyu, alternative power sources for the moon were detailed, including huge solar arrays as well as cables and pipes to bring heat and electricity to the proposed base.
However, one former Air Force general has now raised the alarm over the proposals after he claimed that China has already begun mining helium-3 from the moon.
While the form of helium gas is rare on Earth, it’s estimated by NASA that the moon has at least one million tons of it.
It’s believed by experts that this could act as a nuclear energy provider in a fusion reactor and Kwast has fears that China might monopolize the element.
During an appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show, Kwast said: “If we were to mine the moon for helium-3, at the current level of electricity use... we could power the energy needs of the human race for thousands of years based on the helium-3 that’s on the moon right now.”
