Absolutely disagree, and I think the waste majority of space nerds do so as well. ARM was a mission literally designed so Obama so NASA would have something to

Absolutely disagree, and I think the waste majority of space nerds do so as well. ARM was a mission literally designed so Obama so NASA would have something to do with SLS and Orion. It was a pretty terrible mission that basically nobody wanted except the president. The actual ARM that they settled on would only pick up a small bolder from an asteroid and bring it to earth orbit. Not large enough to live in, not even close. And not even useful for resources. Water is by far the most useful thing you can find, and its what makes everything else possible. The moon has a huge amount close to each other. Almost every expert I have heard talk about is, think getting water from the moon is the best way to use space resources early on. >In terms of resources the moon itself only has water This is completely false. Just FYI. There is lots of different useful materials on Mars. Check out this video by former NASA engineer who has work on in Space manufacturing for many decades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-RTBGnzNks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-RTBGnzNks You can literally build solar panels, batteries, and many other things with martian resources.