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Just read this article by Andrew Smith, provided by Slashdot. <br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2200256,00.html<br /><br />In it he asserts that we are about to provide tax breaks to mining companies to go stripmine the moon after Earth is exhausted. He completely discounts He3 extraction and any other lunar development. He conveniently forgets to provide any kind of backing data.<br /><br />As someone in the Slashdot thread says "it's a big, dead rock".<br /><br />http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/2110238<br /><br />Also, a rebuttal by Mark Wittington:<br /><br />http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/434721/the_economic_development_of_the_moon.html<br /><br />Josh<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div align="center"><em>We need a first generation of pioneers.</em><br /></div> </div>