Former Senator Wants to Mine The Moon

MarkWhittington writes "Harrison Schmitt, Apollo Moonwalker, geologist, and former United States Senator, recently presented a plan to solve the world's long term energy problems by developing fusion power fueled with helium-3 mined from the Moon. He presented this plan in a speech at Williston Basin Petroleum Conference."

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Re:Why is this notable?

[dotancohen]

The Chinese are exactly the reason that senator Schmitt wants to mine the moon. Remember last year when NASA bombed the moon? There were no Chinamen there yet, so the bomb was a waste. But mining the moon, those mines will sit and wait for the Chinese to come and step on them.

This is the US we're talking about. Their only foreign policy is infantry, bomb, mine.... infantry, bomb, mine...