harmonica
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and how much does this cost?....surely you jest.....mining in the solar system??!!!! there is NO WAY you can make money in the solar systemJust as a communications base for our mining operations in the rest of the solar system, hell yeah, a moon base is well worth the price....other than NA$A???
Yes, mankind as a whole. Man needs to get off of this one rock. Our very survival as a species requires it. Some asteroid has our name on it, I want to be able to stop it.
A moon base makes that job a LOT easier.
But said base would also be priceless as a logistics depot, farming, warehousing, water source, etc, and all done in a much smaller gravity well
..what are you mining?? it takes MORE fuel for MORE minerals/etc = MORE weight = ridiculous /etc
There are asteroids worth trillions of dollars. A spaceship lands on the asteroid and builds an engine on the surface. That engine propels the asteroid to high earth orbit where it is then mined.
Then, you use a space elevator to bring the minerals to the surface.