[londonfog]

No— Just worthless rock but how much of your grandkids money do you want to spend on that mine? I can get all the silicon you want down at my beach house.

[Young Werther]

Mine the Helium 3 on the moon and use it to fuel fusion generators. The fusion genrators generate electricity which is beamed to earth. No pollution plenty of electricity and a giant motiviation for our kids to study math and science and engineering. They would colonize the moon and use its resources to benefit all mankind.

Dr Gerald O'Neill who formulated these plans as a Physics Professor at Princeton along with Werhner von Braun knew that the space program could be self funding and provide a profit to boot.

The return on investment, (ROI) for the average company is 10 to 15%. The ROI on the Apollo Program is closer to 700%. Own a computer? Owne a satelite TV receiver? Own a cell phone? Own a GPS receiver? All came from Apollo era inventions and created millions of jobs and incresed our GDP significantly.

Go Into Space? You Betcha!!!!!!