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The moon is a lot smaller than earth for one. I seem to recall it's comparable to the size of the USA, someone correct me if that's a bad memory. But given eno
by eloff 6y ago
The moon is a lot smaller than earth for one. I seem to recall it's comparable to the size of the USA, someone correct me if that's a bad memory.
But given enough time, would it not be likely? The present lack of people there has no predictive value about the far future.
- sjruckle 6y agoIt's somewhat larger. https://xkcd.com/1389/ https://xkcd.com/1389/
- doctor_eval 6y agoI doubt that we have extracted even 1% of the valuable, accessible non fossil resources of Earth yet, and while I know that the more valuable materials are also harder to extract, the moon is currently 100% unutilised, so the idea of near term war for resources on the moon seems like an extrapolation too far for me. That’s not to say that there is no chance of war on the moon, given enough time as you say, but “enough time” IMO is centuries, at which timescale any kind of prediction is really just a guess.
- eloff 6y agoI fully agree. If you go back to my original post it was absolutely clear that's not likely in the near term.