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The Economic Development of the Moon

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-forward-to-my-io-apartment dept.

MarkWhittington writes "Andrew Smith, the author of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, recently published a polemic in the British newspaper The Guardian, entitled Plundering the Moon, that argued against the economic development of the Moon. Apparently the idea of mining Helium 3, an isotope found on the Moon but not on the Earth (at least in nature) disturbs Mr. Smith from an environmentalist standpoint. An examination of the issue makes one wonder why."

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  1. Re:You Can't Skip Steps by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    oh what a crock of shit "running low on non-renewable energy"

    what are you basing this statment on? when was the last time you went to the gas station and they didn't have fuel for you, or flicked the switch at home and there wasn't enough power?

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