watchwatcheswatchest t1_iteyea6 wrote
The Lunar economy will start when there is an established value chain and customer. iSpace is making landers and rovers. I hope they succeed, though its not guaranteed; the last two tries by governments to land on the Moon failed. iSpace has not made any inroads with other space resource tech development such as water harvesting and oxygen extraction near term, maybe He3 and metals long term. Each of those resources require multiple stages of extraction and processing to make them useful. Until all of it is in place there is no economy. Allegories such as selling picks to gold miners in the gold rush are extremely weak because of how much VC / government money it takes to do it.
[deleted] t1_ithv3j9 wrote
This is a colossal waste of resources
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