>It's not just the money, but the entire ecosystem to support the industry. Exactly. You could think of a project on the moon as building a platform, much in t

>It's not just the money, but the entire ecosystem to support the industry. Exactly. You could think of a project on the moon as building a platform, much in the way that the formation of the US was building a platform: creating something that allows other people to generate new wealth on top of it. The benefit to the originator companies of ownership over something like that would be enormous, without them having to do all the work.