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**deethythitoth** · 08-19-2009, 11:54 PM

The US should be able to own the moon. If you do that, then there will be tons of incentive to return and make moonbases.

Seriously, we could export all the manufacturing out there and strip mine the hell out of the moon for millenia.

Yes, yes we could. Just as soon as the cost of whatever metals are available on the moon rises above the cost of launching a multi-ton rocket into orbit, building a mining facility on the moon, and hauling all that crap back to earth. Repeatedly.

08-19-2009, 11:54 PM	#28
deethythitoth Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 382 Senior Member	The US should be able to own the moon. If you do that, then there will be tons of incentive to return and make moonbases. Seriously, we could export all the manufacturing out there and strip mine the hell out of the moon for millenia. Yes, yes we could. Just as soon as the cost of whatever metals are available on the moon rises above the cost of launching a multi-ton rocket into orbit, building a mining facility on the moon, and hauling all that crap back to earth. Repeatedly.
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