From: bondage@frontiernet.net   
      
   Rodney Kelp wrote:   
   >   
   > Well if you had a moon base you could go and fetch an asteroid and bring it   
   > to the moon and process it.   
      
     Why necessairily the Moon? You can't land it, any 'processing' will be   
   on the asteroid itself, so it might as well be a high Earth orbit.   
      
      And 'go and fetch an asteroid' is easy to say...   
      
   > Plus drilling and mining on the moon may   
   > discover all kinds of useful minerals and possibly water.   
   > We could do it if we only spent what is spent on cosmetics and cosmetic   
   > surgery which is a total waist of money on vanity.   
      
      And what's wrong with vanity?   
      
      
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