[sickoflibs]

RE :”silly SOL, once we allocate a grant for the flux capacitor, the moon garbage fuel will easily pay for the rare *earth* stuff to be brought home...”

Good idea,

I am waiting for the proposal to build a Star Ship with Warp Drive that runs on all those plastic food shopping bags that have been piling up the past 10 years.
In fact we can probably 'beam' the rare metals back to earth for a fraction of the cost using the ships 'transporter' , We just need to get private companies to invest their money in a ‘transporter’. Why wasnt this thought of sooner?

[RygelXVI]

We just need to get private companies to invest their money in a ‘transporter’. Why wasnt this thought of sooner?

Kind of like the plan to reduce federal health care cost by curing common, costly diseases like Alzheimers. Brilliant! Wonder why no one else thought of that before?