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Comment Re:Great idea (Score 1) 197

They could establish a gulag there and ship prisoners to it. Then have them grow wheat to be sent back to earth. And have a warden run the whole thing with the aid of a sentient computer named 'Mycroft'.

Riiight! And lasers can whistle!

Comment Re:So wait (Score 1) 197

Why would you land asteroids on the moon to mine them, as opposed to just mining the asteroid where it is?
Why would you put a fuel depot on the moon when there are perfectly good places to put an orbitting fuel depot that doesn't have a pesky gravity well to deal with?

Comment Re:I thought this was long ago debunked (Score 1) 275

what would constitute "proof", Sparky?

Retroreflection is accomplished by having three mutually perpendicular reflective surfaces forming a hollow corner. Natural cubic crystal formations can easily develop hollow corner retroreflectivity. So, to show that it was the Apollo lunar ranging experiment, and not a natural crystal formation, you'd at least have to have before and after shots showing the difference.

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