[devolve]

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It is a make-work program if anyone believes resources from the moon or other planets could be mined and transported back to Earth

The hook in the manned Mars project is that the crew would have to mine and process Mars elements and liquids into fuel that would power them back to Earth

Yeah right!

[potlatch]

The thought of mining and transporting ‘stuff’ from the moon or other planets is so mind boggling stupid that words fail me.

We don't have enough plants to process oil now, nor enough nuclear plants for power. Everything’s a big fight and they want to mine the moon.