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The Economic Development of the Moon
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."
I, for one, welcome our new moon raping overlords.
I think neglecting the potential for cheese mining is the real crime here.
If you looked at the sky through a telescope and saw a tiny robot mining plant there, mining the moon for energy resources, would you be filled with a sense of wonder and pride about the ingenuity and courage of your fellow man, or with forbidding and dread that the moon was being raped?
Given our current level of technology, if I looked at the sky through a telescope and saw a tiny robot mining plant there, mining the moon for energy resources, I would be filled with a sense of wonder about the ingenuity of aliens, and with forbidding and dread that the Earth would be next.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
If we mine the moon, then we'll become dependent on its resources. When it finally explodes (as moons are notorious for doing), our glorious space empire will fall.
Skype is too convoluted... Now I'm reverse-engineering the Kyoto Protocol.
If you let the helium out, it will stop floating up in the sky. Guess where it will fall.
Screw volcanoes; some people say the dinosaurs died because they had no space program. Maybe they died because they did have one, and made the same type of arrogant mistake.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Solution: harvest entropy.
It sounds like the premise of the next Bond flick: MoonRaper.
Not to mention that you are free labor, and food to boot.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
There are people who would consider that not just raping the Moon Goddess, but anally raping the Moon Goddess.
(P.S.: In before rule 34!)
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Please quit injecting reality into our Sci-Fi fantasies.