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Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon
FoxNews.com ^
| 10/18/11
| Jeremy A. Kaplan
Posted on 10/18/2011 3:42:37 PM PDT by ColdOne
The moon is made of far more valuable stuff than green cheese. And one man wants to capitalize on that fact.
NASA, which ended America's space shuttle program in June, says it wants to privatize spaceflight. Naveen Jain, co-founder and chairman of Moon Express, Inc., wants to go a step further: He wants to privatize the moon itself.
Jain's company plans to piggyback on private shuttle flights, using them to carry his lunar landers and mining platforms to the moon.
"People ask, why do we want to go back to the moon? Isn't it just barren soil?" Jain told FoxNews.com. "But the moon has never been explored from an entrepreneurial perspective."
Green cheese indeed -- there's cash in them lunar hills!
Our nearest neighbor in the sky holds a ransom in precious minerals, Jain explained: Twenty times more titanium and platinum than anywhere on earth, not to mention helium 3, a rare isotope of helium that many feel could be the future of energy on Earth and in space.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: barneypell; bobrichards; cobalt; fusion; gold; helium3; india; iron; moon; moonexpress; naveenjain; palladium; platinum; titanium; tungsten
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:42:37 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
To: KevinDavis
Shipping jobs off-planet...
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:48:20 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
To: ColdOne
Why not just go to Wisconsin ?
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:49:40 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
To: ColdOne
Its what needs to happen and our government needs to do all it can to clear a path.
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:50:27 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: ColdOne
In 50 years, the moon may be Galt’s Gulch.
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:50:46 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: ColdOne
I read the book. It turns out badly in the end, with the rebirth of the Stupid Government they thought they’d left behind.
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:52:59 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(You could be a monthly donor, too. It's easy!)
To: ColdOne
Is he also the man who sold the world?
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:57:16 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: struggle
In 50 years, the moon may be Galt’s Gulch.
One of my favorite books as a kid was about a revolt against earth.
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:59:09 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: ColdOne
Why stop there?
To: ColdOne
Reminds me of an old radio science fiction tale that is about slave labor on the moon.
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posted on
10/18/2011 3:59:47 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: ColdOne
When the Chicoms land on Luna, they will plant their flag and CLAIM IT.
I have foreseen this.
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:06:16 PM PDT
by
darth
To: Jack Hydrazine; ELS; ToxicMich; Cronos; Art in Idaho; TheOldLady; Oiao; nepppen; Vaquero; ...
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:12:23 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Obama is siding with the American Nazi Party with the OWS Protestors..)
To: ColdOne
The bigger problem is how to get the things mined back to earth in enough volume to pay for the effort.
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:19:09 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: ColdOne
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:19:49 PM PDT
by
woodchukwood
("The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency." -E. McCarthy)
To: umgud
The bigger problem is how to get the things mined back to earth in enough volume to pay for the effort.
American ingenuity and private enterprise will find a way...........it won't be the government and it never has.
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:23:39 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.)
To: al baby
There’s green cheese in Wisconsin???
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:26:57 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: woodchukwood
I do not have bandwidth for youtube.
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:29:49 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: umgud
The bigger problem is how to get the things mined back to earth in enough volume to pay for the effort.Ssssshhhhhh! There's millions of dollars in grant money at stake!
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:29:49 PM PDT
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: El Sordo
Earthlings just doing the jobs that Moonlings don’t want to do.
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:37:32 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: TigersEye
That’ll work great for anything worth more than $50 million/pound back here on earth or $25 million/pound on the moon.
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posted on
10/18/2011 4:58:48 PM PDT
by
nicepaco
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