Re: US Intuitive Machines set for second moon landing in February

On 11/01/2025 3:58 am, john larkin wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:47:04 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

Intuitive Machines set for second landing, looking to build a lunar economy
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/intuitive-machines-set-for-second-landing-looking-to-build-a-lunar-economy/

 A "lunar economy" sounds silly. There's nothing up there but dirt and
radiation.

And a whole lot of helium-3.
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4001

May as well plop your business in the middle of a desert, or
antartica, or on a barge offshorse.

John Larkin doesn't know enough to realise that the business might be exploiting resources that might not be available anywhere else

I was once involved with some utopians who wanted to set up an ideal
society, New Island, on a barge in the Gulf of Mexico. Same idea. It
sounded dreadful so I declined. But at least the barge would have had
air and rain and a way to paddle home.

John Larkin can understand the need for air and water. He less well-informed about more exotic resources, and incapable of learning what they might be.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydnhey