[IrishCatholic]

Ok then. Imagine magnetic rail launching powered by solar power flinging spaceships from the moon’s surface where they were built out to the asteroids. Imagine materials coming back to be manufactured on the ground of the moon without regard to its “environmental impact”.
Imagine the cost of expansion of human activities greatly reduced as all that is required is more mining. Our horizons would be expanded in unlooked for ways that comes from being there.
No, it is not the type of race to lose. We must go back to the moon first, build up there, and then move on to the rest of the solar system.
Manifest destiny should not be written in Chinese or Japanese characters.

[RightWhale]

Forget it. The Treaty is there to put a stop to all that and it is working quite well.