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.
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Earth First! (We’ll strip-mine the other planets later).
but are these mining jobs shovel ready????
He proposes building a lunar colony and lunar minimg opertion to collect Helium 3 which only exists on the Moon. This He3 would be the feedstock for fusion generators built on the moon. The elctricity generated would be converted to microwaves which would be beamed to earth where it would be reconverted into electricity which would power the entire world.
This would be green energy which no earth pollution.
Imagine the education spur when mining students, mechanical engineering, and all the disciplines that would be required to colonize and mine the moon. The educational requirements would spur a genration of students who want to go into space.
I met Harrison Schmitt at the National Spaec Society Internation Space Conferenc in 2007 and believe that this is a PLAN!
I don’t remember that show it isn’t on netflix
bflr
As a kid born just after the first moon landing I thought everything space related was awesome, even that show.
Give it a rest. Relax, the current lunar mining contracts have about another 1,000 years to run. And even then, Earth will be up against some heavy hitters from outsystem. The gas giant Dwellers have held those contracts for several million years and are not about to give them up to some johnny-come-lately Earth-types.
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