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Say, how will they avoid asteroids falling onto earth by accident?

I'm honestly more surprised that no one here is calling Trump insane for thinking that mining the moon is possible and going on about how any resources going to this should go to something like education and welfare instead

What about possible "terrorist" attacks or sabotage to keep this from taking off? Hell, it could maybe even be used to justify "intervention" and with the right politicians in the USA, they can have more influence over it

Leasing it out to other countries?

There's always "diplomacy" and guys In the USA voluntarily giving it up

Until some US Politician decides to disarm and give it all away

Lots of space in err space to deal with And whose to say that Asteroid is US territory? What prevents other countries and their companies from harvesting it?

How will it be kept from steering off course?

In-Regards to Space Mining, how much of it will be automated? Robots over people And if it’s got people, will there be mini-arcologies or they’ll have to live on shipments

Globalism returns

So the US sells to other nations the tech to move into space and use its resources also?

Isaac Arthur unlike his associate Kursenatz’ not into insane idealogue stuff as I recall Though he said he would keep his negative opinions on colleges to himself, but thinks things would be better with online classes and trade schools and less taxation to fund said public/university-education...

So what wouldn’t be generous?

They can say that the reasons are different, that the USA has plans on using their space resources and technology for possible future plans and that this stuff needs to be redistributed

They can stop the US from sending more missions to outer space and back Send officials, declare NASA to be unsafe and bigoted, try influencing any corporations associated with NASA and the USA to stop it

@Emperor Tippy Who would be the USA’s top competitors? I don’t think other countries would approve of the USA having a monopoly on its resources Empty? Nah, the moon belongs to the rest of the countries of the UN

Would end up requiring constant visits to the moon, back and forth Also, I expect other countries to stake their claims ASAP

What resources does the Moon have? Does it have iron, gold, uranium?