[extropy-chat] Moon news

[J Corbally]

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>Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:58:51 -0800 (PST)
> >From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Moon news
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>--- 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?

Then they adapt or perish.

James...

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