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NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon
The Verge ^ | February 9, 2014 | Adrianne Jeffries

Posted on 02/12/2014 12:38:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why? Just talk to China. They’ll be the ones better able to do this with any interested company. NASA is too concerned with diversity and social justice to do anything that can make money or is even scientific.


21 posted on 02/12/2014 3:46:43 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: momtothree; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks momtothree.


22 posted on 02/12/2014 3:55:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Mine the moon.” How much does it cost to bring a pound of helium back to Earth? Is there some mineral that is so valuable that it pays its way on the space mission?


23 posted on 02/12/2014 4:37:49 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

lol

anyone who thinks the environmental weenies will allow this is kidding themselves


24 posted on 02/12/2014 5:32:02 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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The key factor would be final cost of production. Does it make sense to believe that it would cost less to travel to the moon, mine substances and return safely with them than to obtain them here on Earth?


25 posted on 02/12/2014 6:48:01 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shouldn’t NASA be accepting applications only from companies that want to spread Islam?


26 posted on 02/12/2014 12:05:24 PM PST by DPMD
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Put a giant Coca Cola logo, visible from earth, up there. Let Coke pay for the missions.


27 posted on 02/12/2014 12:53:31 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NASA’s liberal... so is this a ‘pay to play’ Chicago type corruption?


28 posted on 02/12/2014 12:53:39 PM PST by GOPJ ("Washington Redskins" - Keep the Name. Change the mascot to a potato. - FR hoosiermama)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Ahyes...there it is.


29 posted on 02/12/2014 1:24:03 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I could put a company together to set up an automated titanium smelter on the moon, I’d get started tomorrow.

And I wouldn’t stop to ask NASA’s permission either. I’d just do it. Because... How would they stop me?


30 posted on 02/12/2014 1:26:02 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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With the space shuttle... oh, wait.


31 posted on 02/12/2014 1:31:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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There was a reason I needed to resign my Space Shuttle Door Gunner commission....


32 posted on 02/12/2014 2:37:16 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I seem to recall Newt Gingrich being publicly ridiculed for making similar proposals.
33 posted on 02/12/2014 2:45:40 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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34 posted on 02/12/2014 2:55:48 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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