Mining On The Moon

The Night Watchman writes "This article on Yahoo News outlines the latest plans in the works for a handful of private companies to begin lunar mining missions within the next 10 years."

Comments

they shouldn't be able to do this

[MathJMendl]

These companies have no right to do this to the moon. The whole universe was not put here so that we could carefully destroy planets one at a time. This topic has not even been placed up for debate before people have started to plan the moon's destruction! The action of these companies is reckless, as we need to more carefully manage our natural resources. These companies are simply looking for money, but it is ridiculous to think they have any right to go up and start chopping at the moon.

On the other hand, efforts to colonize North America were often driven by (fruitless) attempts for money.