Moon shadows ping.
Cool, wish they’d find a bunch of rare earths now.
Remember 1:4:9 when it’s dug up.
If we could only mount a real expedition there, not a fake one like, we did inside a Burbank sound stage back in what year was it, 1969, 1970? when that faker Tricky Dicky Nixon was in power!
Titanium is hardly a rare element and ilmenite is a common mineral found in beach sand. And with most of the developed countries on planet Earth on the verge of economic collapse, only a fool would see some point in spending billions colonizing the moon.
I hear the moon is a harsh mistress.
Occupy the Moon!
ML/NJ
I don’t think they will allow mining on the moon. It would endanger salamanders, or voles, or something.
Titanium helped put the US on the Moon, and the USSR never got there. Similarly, US military aircraft used a lot of titanium, while Soviet military aircraft had larger engines to move all that steel, and a shorter range as a consequence (they planned to fight their air war near their European bases anyway; also built a lot more craft), as well as less manueverability.
Titanium remains expensive. Processing it on the Moon will work fine as long as it is done by a sovereign colony, rather than employees working under an EPA-crippled enviroweenie-impact agenda. Thanks decimon.
WOW!
Titanium treasure? It’s mine, I call it!
Titanium is not that hard to find on earth. It’s the most common white pigment in paints and other white colored things.
The real question is whether the “Moonies” work cheaper than Earthmen. If so, it’s time for a MAFTA (Moon-American Free Trade Act). I haven’t heard of a GAFTA (Galactic-American . . . .) so I guess our government hasn’t made contact with the UFO pilots yet.
The PLA will be the ones exploiting the find. Maybe they will sell us some.
They announced a few years ago that the nearly identical make up of the lunar surface proves that the Moon was previously a part of the Earth. So what does this do to that theory?
Wow, it is a good thing we’re going there first to work out the technology for inter-planetary travel. Oh, wait ...
space ping
Been waiting for them to find something of real value on the Moon or on any of the other planets since 1969. Moon Maidens, Amazonian Women, or even those green skin Orion slave girls. I can’t wait much longer, I’m not getting any younger.