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GiraffeAdditional299 t1_j7vzq7e wrote

Reply to comment by 123yes1 in A solution to the climate crisis: mining the moon, researchers say. by Vucea

I think the political ramifications will cause the largest problem. The moon will become a military contested location. Plus, the fines put into orbit from the mining will be deadly.

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123yes1 t1_j7w03av wrote

Sure, those could be likely problems, but every idea starts out half baked. Some out of the box thinking is probably needed to prevent climate catastrophe. Maybe this is it, maybe something else. The only way to figure that out is by investigating ideas

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GiraffeAdditional299 t1_j7w0fcj wrote

Half baked ideas are why the world is the way it is right now. Should we take such countenance into the frontier of space?

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