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12edDawn on October 6, 2025 1:33 pm Imagine being able to look up and *see* quarries on the Moon. Crazy.
MikeInPajamas on October 6, 2025 4:29 pm “CAMEL TASTES BETTER UNDER MOONLIGHT” … beamed straight into your eyeballs from lasers on the Moon.
pants_mcgee on October 6, 2025 6:15 pm TLDR: We currently have no idea how to make the Moon economically viable. Mining I guess, we don’t know.
fitzroy95 on October 7, 2025 4:44 am Outsource it to China, like everything else that US used to do (but has since walked away from since Trump took over)
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Imagine being able to look up and *see* quarries on the Moon. Crazy.
Hey the gold rush worked for California. Any gold on the moon?
“CAMEL TASTES BETTER UNDER MOONLIGHT”
… beamed straight into your eyeballs from lasers on the Moon.
TLDR:
We currently have no idea how to make the Moon economically viable. Mining I guess, we don’t know.
Outsource it to China, like everything else that US used to do (but has since walked away from since Trump took over)