RE: Why do we want to return to the moon?
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I had not seen that detail of taking asteroids to the moon, it is a good idea; but I have not believed that there are resource leaks on the planet, you just have to look, it is like oil, we have found it in the least expected places.
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I don't know if anyone has released any papers on the idea yet, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of it, and I've been putting the idea out there for at least 15 years now, so I'm certain that at least one other person has given it some thought at this point.
The sort of resources this would be most useful for are the sort of things that are considered 'rare' or expensive to mine here on earth. Rare earth elements, gold, and even methane are all fairly abundant in space. Manufacturing could be moved to the moon, and we could likely build human expansion from there for another few millenia before we started facing the problems with waste and pollution that we see here on earth.
The idea of exploiting asteroid resources or stellar objects right there, asteroid mining, had always been considered, these are ideas that will be applied at the time and as in everything, it will depend on the cases in using one scheme or another, everything that comes is interesting.
Exactly, good point, like helium 3, which is much more abundant on the moon than here on Earth.
Excellent, thank you