[AnotherUnixGeek]

No money is to be made from the moon except possibly in a peripheral activity such as tourism, which might be worth $1 billion a year or $1 billion total for all time.

I've been reading and hearing different. And there are also going to be huge military and scientific benefits to a permanent base on the moon.

[RightWhale]

I have also read all that, and written some, too.