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There's zero value in traveling to the moon. It has no resources.

• inglor_cz 3y ago
  Do we actually know that? The Moon's surface is twice as big as Russia, and only a tiny part of it has been analyzed by geologists.
  • dotnet00 3y ago
    It would be more meaningful to say that it has no resources that are accessible or valuable to us at our current level of development. At some point the deuterium deposits may be valuable for nuclear fusion and the ability to produce and launch fuel from the lunar surface may be a big deal, those things just weren't valuable while orbital refueling was effectively 'banned' by Congress until Shelby finally retired. Now that such an absurd restriction has been lifted and we have at least 2 large refuelable vehicles under development, perhaps in a few decades we will see some value to having some industry on the Moon.