The moon is pocked with huge craters caused by asteroid collisions over billions of years. Those asteroids are said to be rich with extremely valuable minerals. always wondered if such a starship that Elon is building would be immensely profitable if it was used to mine those craters.
Speakking of lunar craters, there was news in the past few weeks that an old SpaceX upper stage was going to crash into the Moon (on the back side) in March — turns out, it’s a Chinese spent rocket that’s going to make the hit.
Probably, but Joe Biden would do something to Elon so the Chinese could steal it
Yes... but 90% of your ROI on mining those resources will come in off-Terra utilization. There isn’t a need to drop them back down the gravity well.