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I can think of a few. There's supposedly fuel on the moon. He3, if I'm right. You'd be much more easily able to control space (orbital space), because you'd h
by TheSOB88 17y ago
I can think of a few.
There's supposedly fuel on the moon. He3, if I'm right.
You'd be much more easily able to control space (orbital space), because you'd have fabrication plants on a place with about 1/6 of the gravity, making escaping that gravity much, much easier.
It would bring you a lot closer to the goal of space colonization.
Plus, lasers.
- philwelch 17y agoWhat advantage does the moon give to fabrication plants other than, say, building fabrication plants directly in high orbit as space stations?
- ErrantX 17y agospace - easier to expand (within reason)
- rglovejoy 17y ago1) The Moon contains metals that can be used to make useful things. In the long run, it would be cheaper to make the parts for orbital colonies there, instead of making them on Earth and boosting them into orbit. 2) There is evidence that there is water and oxygen on the Moon. Again, it is cheaper to collect these on the Moon and send them out to the orbital factories and space-based solar collectors than it would be to do so from Earth.