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Somewhat related: Cory Doctorow's shortish story "The Man Who Sold The Moon". http://boingboing.net/2015/05/22/the-man-who-sold-the-moon.html http://boingboing.
by Intermernet 11y ago
Somewhat related: Cory Doctorow's shortish story "The Man Who Sold The Moon". http://boingboing.net/2015/05/22/the-man-who-sold-the-moon.html http://boingboing.net/2015/05/22/the-man-who-sold-the-moon.h...
- jagermo 11y agoIt also appears in "Homeland", his follow-up to "Little Brother".
- Someone 11y agoNice story. I guess the title is a reference to Heinlein's version (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon), which has greed/capitalism conquer the moon.
- gene-h 11y agoNASA is currently trying to do something like that: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/hawaiian-robot-landing-pad-construction http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/haw...