[extropy-chat] Moon news

[Mike Lorrey]

--- J Corbally <jcorb at iol.ie> wrote:
> Such a decision by NASA be a boon to other agencies like ESA.  They
> can then push for funding to do the missions NASA would no longer be
> interested 
> in.  Perhaps a lot less duplication of effort, and more cross-agency 
> collaborations eg. ESA and China or India.
> 
> Then there's the scenario of having NASA run a moonbase on which a
> high tech lab can study samples dropped off by various unmanned ESA
> probes "patrolling" the galaxy.  Who knows, with a moon refinery and
> foundry, maybe it'll be Europe who mines the asteroid belt :)

Wouldn't that conflict with the EU mining workers unions?

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Mike Lorrey
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