Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to re: McFly has a point...

I agree with you in principle
TB — (archived)

But there is still a matter of the available resources on the Moon and the transportation costs.

Your example of California is a good one, and you can find a lot of other places where natural resources have gone largely unused by a population due to the lack of private profit. The Soviet Union was a good example of this.

Still, the analogy only goes so far. To date we have found nothing on the Moon that is analagous to California gold (Helium 3 isn't it), and we have nothing like an existing rail system that would need only to be extended there to make transportation easier.

I predict that asteroid mining will hit its stride before major use of the Moon for large-scale resource use will happen.

Of course, I could be wrong, and something completely off-the-wall might come up as far as a market is concerned--some people have proposed lunar manufacture of orbital solar power stations, for example.

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