Reuters: Trump Administration Outlining Plans For Moon Mining
Source: Reuters
By Meg Hilling
May 7, 2020
Reuters reports that the Trump Administration is drafting an outline for development and mining activity on the moon.
The Trump administration is developing legal plans to begin mining on the moon and create bases there with a number of U.S. allies, according to Reuters.
The outlet reports that the plans are part of a U.S.-sponsored international agreement known as the Artemis Accords. Mining lunar rocks and subsurface water could be converted to rocket fuel.
Reuters says sources say the agreement proposes "safety zones" to prevent countries from damaging future bases on the moon and irons out a legal framework for companies to own the resources they mine.
Read more: https://www.newsy.com/stories/u-s-aims-to-mine-the-moon/
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RandiFan1290
(6,257 posts)maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)The problem is that they really are this dumb.
NickB79
(19,276 posts)Lots of Helium-3 in them thar lunar hills! Yeehaw!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a235/1283056/
pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)It's not enough to destroy this planet, but he has to take the moon with it? Unbelievable. Fricken unbelievable!
Igel
(35,374 posts)1. Consider post #3. All that's gold doesn't glitter.
2. There's a reason that the Chinese are so interested in the Moon. Technology and knowledge may be a goal for many; for the PRC, no less than for the Presidium of the USSR, knowledge is not a goal. It is a means.
Consider the goal of those means in the case of the PCR: Uighurs and Tibetans are not just two random accidents. 1619 is really quite ho-hum, even in its worst interpretation.
EX500rider
(10,881 posts)pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)there will be catastrophic changes to earth.
EX500rider
(10,881 posts)pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)EX500rider
(10,881 posts)pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)EX500rider
(10,881 posts)Mining can not destroy or change the orbit of a 7.342×1022 kg moon.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)turbinetree
(24,732 posts)So Space Force one has plan..... .....lets go mining on satellite object, that is moving further away from this planet .........we can't even find a cure for the common cold...........
ffr
(22,674 posts)That's all I see in this headline. Is there anything else?
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,665 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)And he will want them to write his name on the Moon in letters big enough to read from Earth.
WestLosAngelesGal
(268 posts)... at taxpayers' expense.
smb
(3,475 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)relayerbob
(6,561 posts)That way he'll end in orbit around the Sun forever.
47of74
(18,470 posts)And have it exclusively used to house elected officials who commit treason. No media. No visitors outside immediate family. Have them cared for by robots and no other human contact whatsoever. That would be worse than any punishment I could dream up. (And not for lack of trying).
smb
(3,475 posts)I'd send them a media feed with mocked-up versions of Faux and ONAN with impersonator hosts declaring their disdain and contempt for Trump with the sort of venom found only among former true believers.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,995 posts)Cant wait.
Harry Walpurgisnacht
(78 posts)What a Dumbelstiltskin this "president" is!
Baclava
(12,047 posts)- Heinlein
smb
(3,475 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)Act now to show your patriotism by buying a share of the Mar a Lago Moon Mine. The first 500 people to respond will receive a lock of Trumps hair in a commemorative pendant. You will want to wear it with pride and show it off. Rumor has it that it has healing properties when combined with thoughts and prayers.