Reuters: Trump Administration Outlining Plans For Moon Mining

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

By Meg Hilling
May 7, 2020

Reuters reports that the Trump Administration is drafting an outline for development and mining activity on the moon.
The Trump administration is developing legal plans to begin mining on the moon and create bases there with a number of U.S. allies, according to Reuters.

The outlet reports that the plans are part of a U.S.-sponsored international agreement known as the Artemis Accords. Mining lunar rocks and subsurface water could be converted to rocket fuel.

Reuters says sources say the agreement proposes "safety zones" to prevent countries from damaging future bases on the moon and irons out a legal framework for companies to own the resources they mine.

Read more: https://www.newsy.com/stories/u-s-aims-to-mine-the-moon/

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[RandiFan1290]

1. Extremely Detailed Moon Map Released - Beginning of Lunar Gold Rush

[maxsolomon]

2. Fake Bait? Feed the Media BS to report and then call them liars?

The problem is that they really are this dumb.

[NickB79]

3. If we ever want fusion reactors, it's a necessity

Lots of Helium-3 in them thar lunar hills! Yeehaw!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a235/1283056/

[pazzyanne]

4. Oh, great!

It's not enough to destroy this planet, but he has to take the moon with it? Unbelievable. Fricken unbelievable!

[Igel]

15. Two things.

1. Consider post #3. All that's gold doesn't glitter.

2. There's a reason that the Chinese are so interested in the Moon. Technology and knowledge may be a goal for many; for the PRC, no less than for the Presidium of the USSR, knowledge is not a goal. It is a means.

Consider the goal of those means in the case of the PCR: Uighurs and Tibetans are not just two random accidents. 1619 is really quite ho-hum, even in its worst interpretation.

[EX500rider]

23. How exactly do you "destroy" a airless, lifeless rock? nt

[pazzyanne]

24. If that "airless, lifeless rock" leaves orbit around the earth,

there will be catastrophic changes to earth.

[EX500rider]

25. Somehow I doubt mining will change it's orbit nt

[pazzyanne]

26. Since I won't be around to see the destruction - okay. nt

[EX500rider]

27. Again, not much way to destroy a lifeless rock by mining. nt

[pazzyanne]

29. You have your opinion, I have mine. That is all. nt

[EX500rider]

31. Mines not a opinion but a simple fact.

Mining can not destroy or change the orbit of a 7.342×1022 kg moon.

[yaesu]

5. I'm looking forward to president Biden canceling all of tRumps projects like he never existed. nt

[turbinetree]

6. Beyond words..........Space Force One has spoken............🤢

So Space Force one has plan..... .....lets go mining on satellite object, that is moving further away from this planet .........we can't even find a cure for the common cold...........

[ffr]

7. 33 million unemployed. 77,000 dead, 1.3 million cases and a WH not doing a damn thing about it.

That's all I see in this headline. Is there anything else?

[CaptYossarian]

8. It's for the upcoming cheese shortage.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. Why wasn't this a DUzy? NT

[tclambert]

9. I'm for Moon mining. But you know Trump will screw it up, or try to make it a family business.

And he will want them to write his name on the Moon in letters big enough to read from Earth.

[WestLosAngelesGal]

30. He will find a way to build a Trump Hotel there...

... at taxpayers' expense.

[smb]

10. Start The Program By Sending Trump And His Hangers-On To The Moon, One-Way nt

[47of74]

13. Nah lets not use the Moon as a toxic orange waste dump

[relayerbob]

14. Good point. Let's have Jared write the trajectory program

That way he'll end in orbit around the Sun forever.

[47of74]

16. Better yet build a supermax prison in the middle of the South Pole

And have it exclusively used to house elected officials who commit treason. No media. No visitors outside immediate family. Have them cared for by robots and no other human contact whatsoever. That would be worse than any punishment I could dream up. (And not for lack of trying).

[smb]

19. I'd Modify The "No Media" Thing

I'd send them a media feed with mocked-up versions of Faux and ONAN with impersonator hosts declaring their disdain and contempt for Trump with the sort of venom found only among former true believers.

[47of74]

21. I like that idea

[Kid Berwyn]

11. "We came with fees for all mankind."

Can’t wait.

[Harry Walpurgisnacht]

12. Coal Only, I Presume?

What a Dumbelstiltskin this "president" is!

[Baclava]

17. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

- Heinlein

[smb]

18. So The Moon Will Spank Him With A Rolled-Up Magazine? nt

[Politicub]

22. This is a Trump investment scam in the making

“Act now to show your patriotism by buying a share of the Mar a Lago Moon Mine. The first 500 people to respond will receive a lock of Trump’s hair in a commemorative pendant. You will want to wear it with pride and show it off. Rumor has it that it has healing properties when combined with thoughts and prayers.”

[Marthe48]

28. when I read trump and moon-mining in the same line:

https://9gag.com/gag/awoWnn1/scratch-and-sniff