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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.
To: momtothree; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
02/12/2014 3:55:03 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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?
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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.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
lol
anyone who thinks the environmental weenies will allow this is kidding themselves
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posted on
02/12/2014 5:32:02 AM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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?
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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!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Shouldn’t NASA be accepting applications only from companies that want to spread Islam?
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posted on
02/12/2014 12:05:24 PM PST
by
DPMD
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Put a giant Coca Cola logo, visible from earth, up there. Let Coke pay for the missions.
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posted on
02/12/2014 12:53:31 PM PST
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
NASA’s liberal... so is this a ‘pay to play’ Chicago type corruption?
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posted on
02/12/2014 12:53:39 PM PST
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GOPJ
("Washington Redskins" - Keep the Name. Change the mascot to a potato. - FR hoosiermama)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
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posted on
02/12/2014 1:24:03 PM PST
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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?
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posted on
02/12/2014 1:26:02 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: Dead Corpse
With the space shuttle... oh, wait.
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posted on
02/12/2014 1:31:37 PM PST
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2ndDivisionVet
(Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
There was a reason I needed to resign my Space Shuttle Door Gunner commission....
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posted on
02/12/2014 2:37:16 PM PST
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Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I seem to recall Newt Gingrich being publicly ridiculed for making similar proposals.
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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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