From: fmccall@earthlink.net   
      
   Joann Evans  wrote:   
      
   :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.   
      
   Except most of our industrial processes work better in the presence of   
   at least some gravity.  It makes a lot of things a lot more   
   convenient.   
      
   I'd think you just chuck it into a crater from on high and then go   
   strip mine it out.  No 'landing it' necessary.  Little to no   
   atmosphere means you can use solar furnaces for smelting.   
      
   :   And 'go and fetch an asteroid' is easy to say...   
      
   Yep.   
      
   :> 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?   
      
   Rodney talks like someone who has never seen his girlfriend without   
   makeup.  :-)   
      
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    man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,   
    all progress depends on the unreasonable man."   
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